Music Therapy (MA)

Would you like to use the healing power of music to help people? In our programme, you will develop music therapy skills and learn about the latest therapy concepts. Music Therapy is the specific therapeutic use of music for the promotion of emotional, cognitive, social, and physical integration and recovery on a scientific basis. As an arts therapy approach, it has the potential to contribute to activation, stabilisation, and recovery in the context of prevention, acute intervention, and rehabilitation. In both science and clinical practice, there is an increasing interest in music therapy approaches as an important addition to standard care. The professional context of music therapists is not limited to traditional areas of practice such as psychiatry, psychosomatic medicine, or special education. Music therapy is also applied in classical somatic medicine and increasingly used in prevention. In recent decades, music therapy has been established in the following fields: psychiatry psychosomatics and psychotherapy neurology (early and general rehabilitation) geriatrics palliative and hospice care paediatrics intensive medicine centres (for example, neonatology, oncology, pain) and their post-intensive care facilities psychosocial institutions working with children and families with special needs, disabilities, and early support institutions of prevention and education (e.g. music schools, youth centres, kindergartens) The Master's study programme is anchored in the Evidence-Based Practice Model within medical and health science-related contexts. It offers a comprehensive therapy education, including psychodynamic / depth psychology models, cognitive-behavioural approaches and systemic, humanistic, and genuine arts-therapies approaches. Fundamental musical and clinical competencies are taught on the basis of manualised therapy concepts and practised in small groups. The development of your therapist personality is encouraged and supported by music therapy self-exploration and therapy supervision.