Music therapist is a new profession that emerged in Europe and the United States in the middle of the last century. This profession began to be introduced to China in the 1980s.

Music therapists are a profession that uses music and other means to provide corresponding treatment to clients in the fields of medical and health, psychology, rehabilitation, education, rescue, social work and other fields. From 1944 and 1946, special music therapy courses were established at Michigan State University and the University of Kansas in the United States to train specialized music therapists, and the first batch of music therapists in the world were born.

To date, 150 universities in 45 countries around the world have offered music therapy majors. Music therapy has formed a social profession in developed countries in Europe and the United States. In the United States alone, there are more than 6,000 registered music therapists working in psychiatric hospitals, general hospitals, geriatric hospitals, children's hospitals, special education schools and various psychological clinics.

Employment prospects of music therapists

From the early days of the development of music therapy in China, the professional name of music therapist has been often mentioned. Music therapy has been developing in our country for more than 30 years. It can be said that the legalization and formalization of the professional qualification certification of music therapists has almost become the dream of a generation of music therapy workers.

Look at the development trajectory of foreign music therapy. In many countries, every hospital, every community psychological clinic and corresponding social service agencies are equipped with music therapists and studios. The development of this profession represents, to some extent, the extent of a country's medical needs. For example, at this stage, people's expectations for medical care in our country are still in the state of getting sick and then treating it, but in many countries they have entered the era of medical care from prevention to demand.

In other words, professions such as music therapy that are related to people's understanding of spiritual needs will rise in large numbers. In many developed countries, almost every hospital has a music therapy room. Music therapists in these places use music as a means to provide services to clients in psychology, rehabilitation, anesthesia, delivery, hospice care, cancer rehabilitation, hospital living environment, and pain control. , work in many fields such as physical and mental disease protection.