When were music therapists introduced: In the 1980s.

I major in music therapy. If you like music therapists, have you ever understood what a music therapist does specifically? You first go to a mental hospital, a nursing home, a special school and see those people with autism, schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease. Can you accept facing them every day?

Music therapists are not as wonderful as they sound. Of course, if you really like it, you can learn some necessary courses for music therapy. Piano and guitar are basic music skills. If If you want to go abroad, your instrument improvisation skills need to be very high.

But you said that if you study composition, you should be able to play the piano, but the guitar is more important and is used more in clinical practice. The guitar playing style is not an ordinary popular performance. At the very least, you need to be able to play the piano from different countries and nationalities. The style is like the medieval style. Also, you have to study medicine and psychology. We all have medical courses such as pharmacy, pathology, basic physiological anatomy, etc. in school.

You also need to do anatomy experiments. In terms of psychology, you have to take psychology courses such as music psychology, developmental psychology, applied psychology, etc., and you must also get the psychological counselor qualification certificate. Also, you don’t have I have studied music therapy systematically, but I probably won’t be able to apply directly to study abroad because there are too many things to be assessed in music therapy.

Finally, let’s talk about the prospects of music therapy. After more than ten or twenty years of development in China, there has finally been some improvement in the past two years. The rehabilitation treatment community has begun to pay attention to music therapy, but the recruitment of music therapists There are still very few hospital institutions, but if you are capable enough and don’t have to worry about finding a job, the development prospects of music therapy in China are still very big.

In short, this is a humanistic welfare profession. If you have enough love to care for and contribute to this society, you can consider it, because this profession is very meaningful, but if you want to make money, or do not have enough Be patient, you better not do it. You can first go to the community, rehabilitation hospital, or special school as a volunteer, and then consider whether to be a music therapist.