音乐疗法的有意义的职业
希瑟·海格(Heather Heighway)今年早些时候从吉尔霍尔(Guildhall)毕业,并获得了音乐疗法的硕士学位。在她在学校的时间甚至到了之前,她曾在MHA(一家大型慈善机构经营痴呆症护理院)担任音乐治疗师的角色。
Prior to Guildhall, Heather earned a first-class honours degree in Vocal and Opera Studies from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. She has worked as a freelance opera singer and sang as an oratorio soloist. Heather also started and runs an outreach opera company called Flat Pack Music.
作为音乐治疗师的全新职业
“MHA的座右铭是“以后的生活”- 这对我来说是如此真实。提供一项在他们生命的最后几年中支持这些出色人士的服务。该慈善机构拥有一项屡获殊荣的音乐疗法服务,考虑到神经精神症状 - 与开拓性的音乐疗法团队一起工作非常令人兴奋。
MHA在所有居住痴呆症的居民的所有护理院里都有音乐治疗师。我居住在曼彻斯特周围的四个,在正常情况下,我每周每天在每个家庭中度过一天,提供一对一的音乐疗法和团体会议。由于共同限制,我每天都在同一房屋中看到五个客户,并在每个套件上举行小组疗法课程。我真的很期待每天上班,并带着灿烂的笑容回家,知道我正在做我梦dream以求的工作。”
将公会培训付诸实践
“我学到的钢琴技巧和和谐知识公会在马萨诸塞州已经非常有益。目前,我的大部分作品都是使用已知的歌曲(Covid意味着我们无法使用共享的打击乐器)。我们演唱的许多曲目都是音乐剧中的《战时歌曲》,因此幸运的是,我对这种音乐风格的热爱非常方便。我对良好的人声技巧了解很多,因此我可以整天舒适地使用我的声音,而不会变得疲倦。据我能够考虑房间内的关系以及居民的认知能力,该课程的心理动力学方法一直很有帮助。”
选择音乐疗法课程
“I have always loved singing and performing. Performing for a live audience always gave me such a thrill – especially seeing the audience’s reaction to music. I was unwell for a long period of time and during this time I found that music kept me going. I began to research other career paths that meant I would be able to help people who were unwell. I had been teaching a young girl who was living with learning difficulties and her mother suggested music therapy. I instantly began researching music therapy and it seemed a perfect fit for me – being able to help people using music.
吉尔霍尔(Guildhall)的课程非常多样化,有很多音乐投入以及理论和心理学。您有一个绝佳的机会,可以在第一项和第二次研究中获得一对一的乐器课 - 没有其他课程提供。导师来自不同的背景,所以我觉得我会从不同的音乐疗法模型中获得投入。在我开始之前,我会称自己为非钢琴家,而吉尔霍尔(Guildhall)似乎对我很欢迎。我也对工作的心理动力学方式非常感兴趣,并想训练在我可以进一步了解这一点的地方,看看这是否是我想练习的一种方式。
在两年中,您还可以在不同的设置上有三个位置,因此您可以获得与不同客户群体合作的非常多样的经验。”
实用的工作经验来提高技能
“在第一年,我花了两个学期在一所有特殊教育需求的儿童的学校工作 - 我与自闭症患有自闭症的非语言小学生一起工作。在第一年的最后一年中,我去了一所主要小学,在那里我与6年级的孩子一起经营了一个过渡小组,我们专注于搬到中学。
In second year I worked in three different care homes providing music therapy for older adults living with dementia and Parkinson’s disease. I was very anxious as I had never thought I would work with this client group, however, Ann Sloboda (Guildhall programme leader) is very good at placing people based on their personality and musical skill and I absolutely loved this placement from day one. I very quickly realised that this was the client group I wanted to work with.”
研究生培训的奖励和挑战
“I had been very worried about my harmony knowledge and skills as well as my piano playing. There is a module in first year called keyboard skills where we not only looked at keyboard skills but also learnt about harmony. I found this class so challenging and every week I thought I was struggling – we would improvise with harmonic goals in mind and think about modes (something I had never done before). The exam at the end of this module also seemed impossible when I first started. However throughout the year I began to notice my musicianship skills improve.
I am now able to do things that I wouldn’t have dreamed of being able to do at the start of the course – like transpose to fit the key that a client is singing in, ending improvisations with cadences, improvising songs and accompanying at the piano.我一直对我的音乐能力感到惊讶- 我的音乐耳朵得到了很大的改善,我真的认为这是不可能的。”
寻找未来
“音乐therapy seems to grow all the time and I would like to帮助提高mainst其好处的认识ream media. This is something that is starting to happen with TV programmes like我们的痴呆合唱团which is hugely exciting. After seeing how wonderful and beneficial it can be I want to continue to support this.”