27 Nov 2013

Wednesday Nov 17th, 2013 in room 52.S29 (in front of the canteen) at 16h

Introduction to music therapy and use of ICT in music therapy diagnostic

ABSTRACT: During the last 50 years European and European influenced music therapy did big steps towards a fixed part in health and social services and sciences. Selected examples from clinical practice will give a brief overview about the scope of the very different application of music therapy approaches in very different fields of clinical practice. Moreover, one field of interdisciplinary research and development combining ICT and music therapy is the field of microanalyses in music therapy. So far qualitative research and standardized observations were used in the last 10 years for research of therapeutic processes in music therapy. All these methods are very time consuming. However, these methods are very important for diagnostic and assessment of music therapy. First developments, i.e. Music Therapy Toolbox on the basis of MIR, are very promising for future use as diagnostic tools in music therapy. The state of the art of this field will be presented and discussed.

BIO: Thomas Wosch is professor of music therapy at the university of applied sciences of Wuerzburg and Schweinfurt in Germany. He is director of Master in Music Therapy for clients with special needs and for clients with dementia. He is head of last year specialisation in music therapy in BA Social Work. He was 10 years music therapist in acute adult psychiatry with focus of treatment of schizophrenia, depression, anxiety disorders and borderline disorder. His special field of research are microanalyses in music therapy (measurement of minimal changes in music therapy processes; see also: Wosch & Wigram (2007) (eds.): Microanalysis in Music Therapy. London & Philadelphia: JKP.). He has research cooperation and international teaching all over Europe, in US, down under and South America. He is Co-editor of www.voice.no and of "Musik und Gesundsein" (music and health).