Levels of Music Therapy Interventions
Principles and Strategies
Need for Different Levels
- Indications from research
- Traditional group therapies
- Long-term
- Cathartic
- Insight-oriented
- May be counterproductive in short-term inpatient work OR
- With chronic schizophrenic disorders
Wheeler’s Three Levels
- These are adaptations identified in Unkefer/Thaut (pg. 182)
- Supportive - Activities-Oriented Music Therapy
- Reeducative- Insight and Process Oriented Music Therapy
- Reconstructive, Analytically and Catharsis Oriented MT
Supportive - Activities-Oriented
Music Therapy- To
- Actively involve through concrete