Special Interest Group

Global Perspectives on Assessments in Music Therapy Practice

Erika Saito MD, MA, Japan

The SIG on Global Perspectives on Music Therapy Assessments will offer a comprehensive overview on a variety of standardized and non-standardized music based assessments utilized around the globe for developed for different client populations. The focus of this group lies on the specific role of music as a means to identify, observe, understand, and make meaning of the needs and potentials of individuals. We will communicate how these observations contribute to clinical diagnoses; interdisciplinary treatment; to guide therapeutic goals, and clinical decisions; to identify changes occurring in therapy over time, and to provide guidelines to communicate about music therapy to other professional fields.

Furthermore, the cultural adequacy of music therapy assessment procedures, as well as cultural context, in which they are administered are a central focus of this SIG group. This SIG group will offer perspectives on Music Therapy Assessment drawing from their expansive, diverse, and international clinical, pedagogical, research and theoretical experiences and perspectives, as the diversity of philosophical foundations of music therapy practice are displayed in assessments, as well.

SIG Leader

Gustavo Schulz

Gustavo Schulz Gattino, PhD

Gustavo Schulz Gattino, PhD is a music therapist and Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Psychology at Aalborg University (Denmark). He is a teacher of the Bachelor, Master and PhD music therapy programs at the same university. He is accredited as a music therapist by the Portuguese Association of Music Therapy (APMT) and the country representative of Denmark in the European Music Therapy Confederation (EMTC). Dr Gattino is the editor of the Portuguese Journal of Music Therapy (RPM). He is a member of the International Music Therapy Assessment Consortium (IMTAC) and also a member of the Publications Commission of the World Federation of Music Therapy (WFMT) [gattino@hum.aau.dk]

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SIG Members

Eric G. Waldon

Eric G. Waldon, Ph.D., MT-BC

Eric G. Waldon, Ph.D., MT-BC is Associate Professor and Program Director of Music Therapy at University of the Pacific in California. In addition to board-certification as a music therapist, Dr. Waldon is a licensed psychologist. He has served on the American Music Therapy Association (AMTA) Board of Directors, the editorial boards of Journal of Music Therapy and Music Therapy Perspectives, and the Research Committee and Assembly of Delegates. Dr. Waldon’s scholarship focuses on clinical assessment, measurement, and research engagement in music therapy. He was a co-editor of Music Therapy Assessment: Theory, Research, and Application (Jessica Kingsley) and recently published The Music Therapy Assessment Manual: A Guide to Data-Based Decision Making (AMTA).

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Stine Jacobsen

Gray Baldwin, MA, MT-BC: Gray Baldwin, MA, MT-BC, of Main Street Music Therapy, specializes in working with LGBTQAI2S+ children, teens, adults, and older adults. They have over twenty-five years of music therapy clinical experience at behavioral health settings, medical and hospice settings, schools, and community music therapy. Their work centers in humanism, queer theory, & culturally responsive practices. They specialize in queer issues, minority stress, identity development, acute and chronic pain, trauma, and stress.  In addition, they teach at several universities and colleges courses that focus on research, music therapy in medical settings, practicum, supervision, mindfulness, ethics, and culturally responsive practices.  

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Past SIG Members

Thomas Bergmann

Thomas Bergmann, PhD

Thomas Bergmann, PhD is certified music therapist, supervisor, and head of the therapy department of the Treatment Center for Mental Heath in Developmental disabilities in Berlin, Germany. He did his PhD in psychology with focus on music-based diagnostics (MUSAD). His clinical work and research interest is on assessment and support of adults with developmental conditions including autism spectrum. This is documented by numerous international publications and memberships, such as being part of the steering group for the German AWMF medical guideline development autism spectrum: therapy.

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Orii McDermott

Orii McDermott, PhD

Orii McDermott, PhD is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Mental Health, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham. She focuses on dementia psychosocial intervention research; including care home work, supporting people with young onset dementia, music therapy and music-based interventions.

She is a HCPC registered music therapist and continues to work as a clinician in Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust.

She is an Associate Editor for Nordic Journal of Music Therapy and serves on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Music Therapy, Music & Science and Aging & Mental Health.

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Gray Baldwin

Gray Baldwin, MA, MT-BC: Gray Baldwin, MA, MT-BC, of Main Street Music Therapy, specializes in working with LGBTQAI2S+ children, teens, adults, and older adults. They have over twenty-five years of music therapy clinical experience at behavioral health settings, medical and hospice settings, schools, and community music therapy. Their work centers in humanism, queer theory, & culturally responsive practices. They specialize in queer issues, minority stress, identity development, acute and chronic pain, trauma, and stress.  In addition, they teach at several universities and colleges courses that focus on research, music therapy in medical settings, practicum, supervision, mindfulness, ethics, and culturally responsive practices.  

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Wendy L. Magee

Wendy L. Magee, PhD

Wendy L. Magee, PhD is Professor of Music Therapy, Temple University (Philadelphia and Japan campuses). She has practiced in neurological rehabilitation since 1988. She is widely published in rehabilitation medicine on music-based assessment and evidence-based practice in music interventions for acquired neurological conditions. Her primary research since 2012 has been developing and validating music-based measures for disorders of consciousness, based in her clinical work from 1990.

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Camila Florena Pfeiffer MA, BA-MT, Netherlands
Camila Florena Pfeiffer MA, BA-MT, Netherlands

Camila F. Pfeiffer, MA/MT-BA, Lic., NMT-fellow

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Activities and Outputs

This SIG Presented at The 7th International Conference of the IAMM

in Athens, Greece, May, 28-29th, 2022

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The 7th International Conference of the IAMM was held in Athens, Greece. Meetings and presentations from Greek and international invited speakers took place in person and through live streaming. Additionally, a week of online-only presentations took place  between May 30 and June 3, 2022

In view of the COVID-19 pandemic and to facilitate maximum international participation, it was possible to opt to attend the conference virtually or in-person.

Athens is one of the world's oldest cities, offering centuries-old history to be explored and enjoyed. According to Plato, one of the first schools of music education was founded by the people of Crete followed by the musical schools of Athens, where students were taught to sing and play the lyre. It was a pleasure for the conference to be held in this magical and historical city.

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