SEMTA© is a music therapy assessment tool designed to provide qualitative and quantitative data for your setting.
Using the SEMTA© Quadrant, measuring engagement and intention, music therapy interventions are scored quantitatively before being described qualitatively.
Music therapists need to be able to provide compelling, data-driven statistics whilst not undermining the unique quality of each client's music. Music therapy assessment tools are one of the most consistent ways to achieve this.
"musical functioning are understood broadly as reflections of one’s overall cognitive and affective relationship to the world and oneself" Carpente & Aigen, 2015, p. 250
"are there generic assessments that could be applied to any population or setting?" Gantt, 2000, p. 42
"music therapists are often part of a multidisciplinary team, they... must engage in EBP to inform their clinical decisions" Baker ed. Wheeler, 2017, p. 103
"Without science, therapy can degenerate to the practice of superstitious ritual, in which each practitioner owes allegiance only to his or her personal myth of existence. Without art, it can lose the very humanity it seeks to examine" Life ed. Wheeler, 2017, p. 76
"there has always come a point with a [client] when a connection has been made that needs acknowledgement, which... can lead to a kind of knowing which may move the therapy on." Levinge, 2015, p. 164
"using integrative knowledge from music, medicine, psychology, anthropology, and special education, as needed, the therapist has to consider whether the patient is suitable for this modality and determine the most appropriate directions, goals, methods, approaches, techniques, etc." Sekeles, 1999, p. 181
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