It's Not Too Late for Therapy by L.A. Long

AMTA's mission is to advocate and educate for the music therapy profession as a whole. Currently, AMTA is the intellectual home for, and it serves member music therapists, students, graduate students and other supporters. AMTA united the music therapy profession for the first time since 1971. The American Music Therapy Association (AMTA) was formed in 1998 as a merger between the National Association for Music Therapy (NAMT) and the American Association for Music Therapy (AAMT). Michigan State University established the first academic program in music therapy (1944) and other universities followed suit, including the University of Kansas, Chicago Musical College, College of the Pacific, and Alverno College. The first music therapy college training programs were also created in the 1940s. Thayer Gaston, known as the 'father of music therapy,' was instrumental in moving the profession forward in terms of an organizational and educational standpoint. Willem van de Wall pioneered the use of music therapy in state-funded facilities and wrote the first 'how to' music therapy text, Music in Institutions (1936). Psychiatrist and music therapist Ira Altshuler, MD promoted music therapy in Michigan for three decades. In the 1940s, three persons began to emerge as innovators and key players in the development of music therapy as an organized clinical profession. Although these organizations contributed the first journals, books, and educational courses on music therapy, they unfortunately were not able to develop an organized clinical profession. And in 1941, Harriet Ayer Seymour founded the National Foundation of Music Therapy. In 1926, Isa Maud Ilsen founded the National Association for Music in Hospitals. In 1903, Eva Augusta Vescelius founded the National Society of Musical Therapeutics. Interest in music therapy continued to gain support during the early 1900s leading to the formation of several short-lived associations. Coalitions & Partnerships - for members.Arthur Flagler Fultz Research Award from AMTA.Scholarship Opportunities for AMTA Members.Education and Clinical Training Information.

It's Not Too Late for Therapy by L.A. Long