MU611 - Music Psychotherapy Skills IV: Verbal Counseling F26

Wilfrid Laurier University • Waterloo, ON

3d • Onsite

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• Master’s in Music Therapy, or equivalent.
• Registered Psychotherapist (independent practice status with evidence).
• Music Therapist Accredited in good standing.

Nice To Haves

• Experience teaching verbal psychotherapy.
• Training courses that meet CRPO qualifications.
• Clinical music psychotherapy experience.
• Record of scholarship.

Responsibilities

• Develop a balanced and integrated theoretical and practical approach to verbal counseling.
• Focus on skills development and students’ integration of their learning into clinical work.
• Learn and practice active, accurate, and attentive listening.
• Understand and utilize non-verbal communications, encouragers, rapport building, and therapeutic environment.
• Learn a wide variety of verbal interventions such as reflecting, repeating, paraphrasing, clarifying, summarizing, perception checks, empathetic statements, and focusing.
• Learn therapeutic questions such as lineal, circular, strategic, and reflexive questions, solution-focused brief therapy interventions, and person-centred therapy techniques.
• Focus on trauma story assessment, narrative exposure therapy techniques, Yalom’s group interventions, and verbal interventions needed for in-take interview and assessment.
• Learn therapeutic interventions for silences in therapy and how to react on difficult group situations.
• Prepare students for their clinical work.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Entry Level