Music Therapy

Seminar Cycle for the Introduction in Music Therapy, 40 hours (it takes place twice per educational year; October to February and February to June)

The Department of Music Therapy, headed by music therapist Pelina Evangelou, is featuring a series of seminars, lasting 40 hours, comprising a course of 6 hours with special guest Dr. Dora Psaltopoulou, Assistant Professor in Music Therapy at the Aristotle University. In addition, it includes experiential workshops and projection of 4-hour  videotaped music therapy sessions conducted by Mrs. Evangelou at the Day Center of the Panhellenic Association of Parents and Friends of People with Visual Impairments and Additional Disabilities “Amymoni”.

The seminars are aimed at music students and professional musicians, students and professionals in health and mental health (such as doctors, psychologists, psychotherapists, speech therapists, occupational therapists, physical therapists, special educators, nurses, social workers, etc.) to teachers, kindergarten teachers, and parents who wish to learn the subject of music therapy and its philosophy. Those who use or would like to use music as a tool in therapy or education and those who wish to prepare for further studies in music. Finally, the seminars can be attended by those wishing to experience how music can facilitate the expression, interaction and communication (verbal or not) and how music therapy can help people develop the emotional, communicative and social skills and creative capacity and enhance the quality of life.

Seminars are theoretical and experiential and include the following sections:

● Definition of Music Therapy
● Target
● Expressive Therapies, Healing Through Art
● Properties of Music and the Use of Music in Music Therapy
● Basic schools and types of Music Therapy
● Applications of Music Therapy in clinical and educational settings
● Objectives and Results of Music
● Music Therapy and Music Technology
● Clinical examples
● Music Therapy in the world and in Greece
● Training in Music Therapy
● Social Music
● Projects Social Music Therapy
● Customized applications of principles and interventions of music from therapists who are not musicians
● Workshops
● Bibliography

[Participants are granted a Certificate of Attendance]

Minimum Internet speed: 24 Mbps

Desired equipment for students:

• Camera: 1080p or Laptop Built In
• Speech Mic or Laptop built-In
• Headphones: Close type
• PC: 8 GB RAM, Windows 10/11, Screen resolution: 1280×1024
• Microsoft Office Suite or Office Suite (Free) or MacOS

Optional equipment for students:

• Audio Interface
• Instrument or Voice Mic
• DAW (Digital Audio Workstation)
• Music Notation Software