MU 611
Clinical MPT Skills IV
This course helps students develop a balanced and integrated theoretical and practical
approach to verbal counseling with a focus on skills development and students’
integration of their learning into clinical work. Students begin to develop their own
verbal counselling style by learning and practicing active, accurate, and attentive
listening. They learn to understand and utilize non-verbal communications, encouragers,
rapport building, and therapeutic environment. Students learn a wide variety of verbal
interventions such as reflecting, repeating, paraphrasing, clarifying, summarizing,
perception checks, empathetic statements, and focusing. They also learn therapeutic
questions such as lineal, circular, strategic, and reflexive questions, solution-focused
brief therapy interventions, and person-centred therapy techniques. A special focus will
be on a trauma story assessment, narrative exposure therapy techniques, Yalom’s group
interventions, and verbal interventions needed for in-take interview and assessment.
Students also learn therapeutic interventions for silences in therapy and how to react on
difficult group situations. After practicing the applications of various verbal counseling
skills, students are now prepared to integrate a variety of techniques into their clinical
work. Course materials include lectures, readings, clinical case examples, video
observation/analysis, demonstrations, and class role-playing. This course is closely
linked and integrated to 2-year students’ concurrent Music Psychotherapy Placement I
(MU604) and it prepares 1-year students for their clinical work.
Prerequisites: 2 year program: MU508.
Corequisites: 2 year program and 1 year program: MU612 (Fall semester),
1 year program psychotherapy field program: none.
This course helps students develop a balanced and integrated theoretical and practical
approach to verbal counseling with a focus on skills development and students’
integration of their learning into clinical work. Students begin to develop their own
verbal counselling style by learning and practicing active, accurate, and attentive
listening. They learn to understand and utilize non-verbal communications, encouragers,
rapport building, and therapeutic environment. Students learn a wide variety of verbal
interventions such as reflecting, repeating, paraphrasing, clarifying, summarizing,
perception checks, empathetic statements, and focusing. They also learn therapeutic
questions such as lineal, circular, strategic, and reflexive questions, solution-focused
brief therapy interventions, and person-centred therapy techniques. A special focus will
be on a trauma story assessment, narrative exposure therapy techniques, Yalom’s group
interventions, and verbal interventions needed for in-take interview and assessment.
Students also learn therapeutic interventions for silences in therapy and how to react on
difficult group situations. After practicing the applications of various verbal counseling
skills, students are now prepared to integrate a variety of techniques into their clinical
work. Course materials include lectures, readings, clinical case examples, video
observation/analysis, demonstrations, and class role-playing. This course is closely
linked and integrated to 2-year students’ concurrent Music Psychotherapy Placement I
(MU604) and it prepares 1-year students for their clinical work.
Prerequisites: 2 year program: MU508.
Corequisites: 2 year program and 1 year program: MU612 (Fall semester),
1 year program psychotherapy field program: none.
This course helps students develop a balanced and integrated theoretical and practical
approach to verbal counseling with a focus on skills development and students’
integration of their learning into clinical work. Students begin to develop their own
verbal counselling style by learning and practicing active, accurate, and attentive
listening. They learn to understand and utilize non-verbal communications, encouragers,
rapport building, and therapeutic environment. Students learn a wide variety of verbal
interventions such as reflecting, repeating, paraphrasing, clarifying, summarizing,
perception checks, empathetic statements, and focusing. They also learn therapeutic
questions such as lineal, circular, strategic, and reflexive questions, solution-focused
brief therapy interventions, and person-centred therapy techniques. A special focus will
be on a trauma story assessment, narrative exposure therapy techniques, Yalom’s group
interventions, and verbal interventions needed for in-take interview and assessment.
Students also learn therapeutic interventions for silences in therapy and how to react on
difficult group situations. After practicing the applications of various verbal counseling
skills, students are now prepared to integrate a variety of techniques into their clinical
work. Course materials include lectures, readings, clinical case examples, video
observation/analysis, demonstrations, and class role-playing. This course is closely
linked and integrated to 2-year students’ concurrent Music Psychotherapy Placement I
(MU604) and it prepares 1-year students for their clinical work.
Prerequisites: 2 year program: MU508.
Corequisites: 2 year program and 1 year program: MU612 (Fall semester),
1 year program psychotherapy field program: none.