Need a tip on music therapy ethics for beginners? Let’s start with one beginner step we can take as a music therapist or counselor. How do we become empowered? The answer is to tune into YOURSELF – believe it or not. The answer is easy! You may think “I don’t have a culture. I’m just an average American.” This is not true.
Look in to your values. What’s important to you? How would you feel if someone contradicted those values? What’s important to us may or may not be important to others. But as long as we can relate to the feeling of being misunderstood or contradicted, then we’re on the right track. Watch the video below for more:
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If you’d like to REALLY dig in to more steps to understanding music therapy ethics, then check out Dr. Natasha Thomas’s Ethics & Human Rights course. It fulfills the ethics requirement! Here’s what’s included:
- You’ll be a witness to deep exploration of how our cultural background impacts the service to our clients, so that your clients may feel even more honored and understood.
