MU 509
MPT Diversity & Soc Justice
This course explores equity, diversity, and inclusion as related to the practice of music
psychotherapy in a variety of contexts. Through investigation of intersectionality theory
and anti-oppressive frameworks, students learn how systemic forces of oppression,
power, privilege, and social injustice impact clients’ and communities’ health and
wellbeing and affect the therapeutic process. Students learn to integrate knowledge of
human diversity into their practice and adapt their clinical approach to best serve clients
from diverse backgrounds. Students explore the barriers that affect access to
therapeutic services and explore frameworks of cultural competency and cultural
humility, applying these to their developing perspectives on music psychotherapy.
Students engage in critical reflection surrounding personal experiences, identities,
values, worldviews, and attitudes and learn how these factors influence the
psychotherapeutic relationship and musicking practices. The musical medium is explored
as an ecological artform that is always embedded in context and culture. Through
identifying and interrogating structures in psychotherapy practice that may contribute to
oppression towards marginalized clients, students explore the ways in which music
psychotherapy can be interconnected with social justice.
This course explores equity, diversity, and inclusion as related to the practice of music
psychotherapy in a variety of contexts. Through investigation of intersectionality theory
and anti-oppressive frameworks, students learn how systemic forces of oppression,
power, privilege, and social injustice impact clients’ and communities’ health and
wellbeing and affect the therapeutic process. Students learn to integrate knowledge of
human diversity into their practice and adapt their clinical approach to best serve clients
from diverse backgrounds. Students explore the barriers that affect access to
therapeutic services and explore frameworks of cultural competency and cultural
humility, applying these to their developing perspectives on music psychotherapy.
Students engage in critical reflection surrounding personal experiences, identities,
values, worldviews, and attitudes and learn how these factors influence the
psychotherapeutic relationship and musicking practices. The musical medium is explored
as an ecological artform that is always embedded in context and culture. Through
identifying and interrogating structures in psychotherapy practice that may contribute to
oppression towards marginalized clients, students explore the ways in which music
psychotherapy can be interconnected with social justice.
This course explores equity, diversity, and inclusion as related to the practice of music
psychotherapy in a variety of contexts. Through investigation of intersectionality theory
and anti-oppressive frameworks, students learn how systemic forces of oppression,
power, privilege, and social injustice impact clients’ and communities’ health and
wellbeing and affect the therapeutic process. Students learn to integrate knowledge of
human diversity into their practice and adapt their clinical approach to best serve clients
from diverse backgrounds. Students explore the barriers that affect access to
therapeutic services and explore frameworks of cultural competency and cultural
humility, applying these to their developing perspectives on music psychotherapy.
Students engage in critical reflection surrounding personal experiences, identities,
values, worldviews, and attitudes and learn how these factors influence the
psychotherapeutic relationship and musicking practices. The musical medium is explored
as an ecological artform that is always embedded in context and culture. Through
identifying and interrogating structures in psychotherapy practice that may contribute to
oppression towards marginalized clients, students explore the ways in which music
psychotherapy can be interconnected with social justice.
