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Where a music therapist can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a music therapist already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Music therapists use music-therapeutic interventions to treat patients with behavioural disorders and pathogenic conditions to prevent, mitigate or eliminate symptoms and to change behaviours and attitudes requiring treatment. They promote and maintain or restore the development, maturity and health of the patient/client by music-therapeutic interventions. Music therapy especially provides help for people with with emotional, somatic, intellectually or socially induced behavioural disorders and pathogenic conditions, such as psychoses (schizophrenic disorders, bipolar disorders) and personality development disorders.

Also known as music therapy practitioner, music therapy counsellor.

Professionals 110 skills on file 5 career moves 3 above 60% overlap Closest: recreational therapist, 77%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1

70% and above · short step
50 to 70% · real move
Below 50% · substantial retraining

The 5 nearest destinations from music therapist, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a music therapist already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.

Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

physiotherapy assistant 59% covered · difficulty 55.1

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

A music therapist needs 96 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area

apply music therapy termination methods assisting and caring
demonstrate musicianship communication, collaboration and creativity
design evaluation methods in music therapy information skills
design music therapy termination plan assisting and caring
develop educational materials on music therapy communication, collaboration and creativity
develop original melodies communication, collaboration and creativity
developmental possibilities in music therapy interventions social sciences, journalism and information
implement evaluation methods in music therapy management skills
integrate scientific findings into music therapy practice information skills
inter-professional communication in the psychosocial field health and welfare

Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a music therapist does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

recreational therapist 62% covered · difficulty 61.9

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Music therapist is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

Note

How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a music therapist’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.