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Course Description

Level I

Required: 4-Day Summer Seminar and 6-session Practicum during Fall Semester

Seminar: MI 502 Music & Imagery for Wellness
2 Graduate Credits / 30 CEUs

This 4-day course provides the expertise to design and implement individualized, single session music and imagery techniques. The curriculum focuses on quick assessment; and the development of effective spontaneous, client-centered inductions and music to stimulate imagery. There is an emphasis on treatment for stress, anxiety or pain with individual clients.

Pre-requisite: Entry level music therapy credential or currently enrolled in graduate music therapy program. Faculty: Lisa Summer

Practicum: MI 502P Wellness Practicum
1 Graduate Credit / 15 CEUs

Trainees conduct 6 hours of supervised sessions with individual clients in the distance learning format. This clinically-based course provides the application for the knowledge and skills learned in MI 502.

Faculty:

Elaine Abbott, Nicki Cohen, Fran Goldberg, Cathy McKinney, Sumi Paik-Maier, Lisa Summer.

Level II

Required: 6-Day Summer Seminar, 14-session Practicum during Fall/Spring Semesters, and 4 personal GIM sessions are required for Level II Training

Seminar: MI 601 Music & Imagery as Music Psychotherapy
3 Graduate Credits / 45 CEUs

This 6-day course provides the expertise to design and implement music and imagery techniques for individual clients in music psychotherapy. It teaches the following skills: music programming for all phases of the therapeutic process, imagery inductions, guiding and processing imagery, assessment of psychodynamic material and symbolic imagery experiences, and indications and contraindications for practice. It integrates knowledge of the therapeutic process with music and imagery skills and prepares the trainee for the real world of establishing a private practice in music psychotherapy.

Pre-requisite: Level I (MI 502, MI 502P) at AMC or a Level I GIM Training from an AMI-Approved Institute.

Faculty: Lisa Summer

Practicum: MI 601P Music Psychotherapy Practicum
3 Graduate Credits / 45 CEUs

Trainees conduct 14 hours of supervised fieldwork in short-term music psychotherapy with individual clients in the distance learning format. This clinically-based course provides the application for the knowledge and skills learned in MI 601.

Faculty:

Elaine Abbott,Fran Goldberg, Tony Meadows, Sumi Paik-Maier, Lisa Summer.

Level III

Required: Four seminars and a 100 session practicum conducted over two academic years; 15 personal GIM sessions

Guided Imagery and Music
MI 701 Programming Music for GIM
1 Graduate Credit / 15 CEUs

Advanced concepts and skills in the use of programmed classical music, and an historical perspective of the Bonny Method as preparation for conducting GIM sessions.
Faculty: Lisa Summer

MI 702 Theory, Research & Professional
1 Graduate Credit / 15 CEUs

Practice in GIM

This course examines the available body of GIM literature (in print and online publications) in order to integrate knowledge of theory, research, and current clinical applications. In addition, it prepares students for the ethical dilemmas that confront a private practitioner in music psychotherapy and gives practical direction for developing a viable private practice in the real world.
Faculty: TBA

MI 703 Basic Rudiments of GIM Practice
3 Graduate Credits / 45 CEUs

An examination of the unique function of each component of the GIM session as it contributes to the client's psychological and spiritual transformation; provides skills to conduct each component from a client-centered perspective. There is an emphasis upon the interactive effects of music, verbal interventions, and consciousness.
Faculty: Lisa Summer

MI 703P GIM Basic Practicum
3 Graduate Credits / 45 CEUs

Trainees conduct 50 sessions of supervised fieldwork with individual clients in the distance-learning format. This course provides the clinical application for the knowledge and skills acquired in MI 703.
Faculty: Brian Abrams, Fran Goldberg, Barbara Hesser, Cathy McKinney, Lisa Summer, and Therese West.

MI 704 Advanced Techniques of GIM Practice
3 Graduate Credits / 45 CEUs

Advanced skills in working with psychodynamic and existential issues that emerge in response to classical music programs. It provides an in-depth examination of music-stimulated images of transcendence and peak experiences, using music-centered and transpersonal theories of psychotherapy.
Faculty: Lisa Summer

MI 704P GIM Advanced Practicum
3 Graduate Credits / 45 CEUs

Trainees conduct 50 sessions of supervised fieldwork with individual clients in the distance-learning format. This course provides the clinical application for the knowledge and skills acquired in MI 704.
Faculty: Brian Abrams, Fran Goldberg, Barbara Hesser, Cathy McKinney, Lisa Summer, and Therese West