Is there a future for music therapists?

Very promising, representing the degree of medical needs of a country. According to the development track of music therapy abroad, in many countries, every hospital, every community psychological clinic and corresponding social service institutions are equipped with music therapists and studios.

For example, at this stage, people's expectations for medical care in China are still in the state of retreatment, but many countries have entered the medical era from prevention to demand.

Music therapy, a profession 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 work for visitors in many fields, such as psychology, rehabilitation, anesthesia, childbirth, hospice care, cancer rehabilitation, hospital living environment, pain control, and physical and mental disease maintenance.

Development history:

Music therapist is a profession that uses music and other means to treat visitors in the fields of medical care, psychology, rehabilitation, education, rescue and social work. From 1944 and 1946, special music therapy courses were set up in Michigan State University and Kansas University to train specialized music therapists, and the first batch of music therapists in the world was born.

From 1960s to 1970s, some European countries, such as Holland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Australia, France, Switzerland, Belgium, Yugoslavia and Canada, established specialized institutions or therapeutic associations for music therapy.

After 1970s, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Uruguay, Japan, New Zealand, Israel, Finland, Italy, Poland, Spain, South Africa, Portugal and other countries all set up music therapy majors.