MT Acronyms
NICU
What is Neonatal Intensive Care Unit?
Music therapy methods that focus on music listening and passive music-based interventions.
What is receptive music therapy?
A systematic approach to the appraisal, testing, or observation of a person’s strengths and weaknesses in preparation for treatment planning.
What is assessment?
Tests that compare individual or group scores with averages of the larger population
What are norm-referenced tests?
This type of functioning includes the frontal lobe of the brain involved in decision-making, planning, and memory.
What is cognitive functioning?
IEP
What is Individualized Education Plan?
Music therapy method involving songwriting
What is the compositional method of MT?
When the client has attained stated goals and objectives, fails to benefit from services, can no longer be scheduled, or is discharged
What is the termination process?
Music therapy approach emphasizing creative experience, natural abilities and sounds, the pentatonic scale, and ostinati patterns with mallet instruments
This domain of functioning includes the taking in of perceptual information, visual and auditory processing, and movement planning.
What is sensory-motor functioning?
BM-GIM
What is Bonny Method of Guided Imagery in Music?
This MT method includes Nordoff-Robbins and Orff types
What is improvisational music therapy?
This is used to describe assessment, placement, treatment plan, and ongoing progress in music therapy in a manner consistent with federal, state, and other regulations and policies.
What is documentation?
Randomly assigning research participants to conditions and measuring outcomes in a systematic way that controls for potential error, these designs attempt to determine cause and effect.
What are randomized controlled trials (RCTs)?
This domain includes expressive and receptive language.
What is communication functioning?
NMT
What is Neurologic Music Therapy?
Performing, musical theater, and singing karaoke are examples of this type of music therapy method.
What is the re-creative method of MT?
After assessing the client's strengths and needs, treatment planning will start with the development of these.
What are goals and objectives?
A method of self-inquiry for an MT to understand contextual influences on practice, connect theory with practice, look back on their sessions, process and evaluate, during and after a session.
What is reflexive practice?
This domain involves interaction with others.
What is socialization?
The credential earned after passing the exam administered by the Certification Board for Music Therapists
MT-BC (Music Therapist, Board Certified)
This is the maximum number of music therapy methods that may be included within a single intervention.
What is four?
Maintaining knowledge of current developments in research, theory, and techniques in music therapy related areas specific to populations and therapeutic settings is known as this.
What is continuing education?
SMART is an acronym for these steps in writing an objective.
What are specific, measureable, achievable, relevant, and time-limited?
This domain includes ways that we manage our behavior in response to our feelings.
What is emotional regulation?