- This internship allows for your valuable time to be divided between patient contact, documentation, travel, supervision, and office time. We begin with a ratio of 20 contact hours a week to 20 hours of ‘other’ (which would include the supervision and office time, etc).
- Depending on intern needs we try to accommodate an increased number of contact hours toward the middle to end of the internship to better prepare you for what a professional caseload would look like.
- Your placements could include the following:
- Assisted Living/skilled nursing home providing groups and individual services.
- Schools serving groups of children aged 6-26 with a variety of needs including autism-spectrum disorder, and severely multiply impaired children.
- A hospice organization serving hospice patients.
- Individual clients with a variety of diagnoses and a variety of ages.
- You will have 1 hour of weekly supervision with your internship supervisor. You will receive weekly written feedback from your supervisor and music therapy mentors (2-3 different mentors depending on caseload).
- We provide monthly opportunities for group supervision that will include:
- Role playing to practice therapeutic skills
- ‘Crash courses’ on songwriting, guitar, piano
- Improvisation experiences
- Idea and intervention sharing with other MT’s
- Monthly group supervision with a clinical psychologist
- Music Therapy Internship Project that will help develop professional skills and also benefit our Center in some way.
