Faculty/Academic Area: Faculty of Music
Department: Music Academic
Campus: Waterloo
Employee Group: WLUFA
Requisition ID: 9865
Course Code and Title: MU507 – SEUS in MPT I (Fall 2025)
Term: Fall 2025
Days/Times: Tuesday 1:00 – 3:50 PM
Hours per week/Hours Total: 3/39
Anticipated Class Size: 20
Additional Course Requirements:
Posted on: June 2, 2025
Posting ends: June 16, 2025
Position Summary:
By learning the group analytic music therapy process, students explore a therapeutic and safe use of self and deepen their self-awareness and learn to recognize instances where the therapist's life experiences may enhance or compromise therapeutic effectiveness. Students also learn to structure and facilitate the therapeutic process, understand its different phases, and establish and maintain an effective therapeutic relationship. They observe and practice verbal and music psychotherapeutic techniques and interventions, plan and practice group facilitation, and analyze musical and psychotherapeutic processes learning to understand and analyze its typical phases. Students learn to employ effective skills in observation of self, the client and the therapeutic process and practice therapy that is within their level of skill, knowledge and judgement. They learn to focus and guide sessions, engage diverse clients according to their demonstrated level of commitment to therapy, facilitate client exploration of issues and patterns of behaviour, support client to explore a range of emotions, employ a variety of helping strategies, ensure timeliness of interventions, recognize the significance of both action and inaction, and identify contextual influences. The students learn to review clients' therapeutic processes and assess their progress periodically, making appropriate adjustments. The course includes experiential elements, role-playing and workshops. It equips one-year students for their clinical work and is closely linked and integrated with the two-year students' MU504 - Music Therapy Placement I.
Qualifications – Required: Master’s degree, Music Therapy, or equivalent. RP (independent practice status with evidence), MTA in good standing. Training and knowledge in Group Analytic Music Therapy or Analytic Music Therapy.
Qualifications - Asset: Training in GAMT or Analytical MT, Clinical Music Psychotherapy experience, Clinical Music Psychotherapy Improvisation experience, record of scholarship.
Salary: $9,206.40
Application Deadline: June 16, 2025
Submit with Application:
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Names and Contact Information for Referees
Evidence of Good Teaching (may include but not limited to: Reference letters, teaching evaluations, list of student successes etc.)
Verification of highest degree
Optional
Cover Letter
Teaching Dossier
Sample Course Outline (2-pages maximum)
Applications may be addressed to:
Music Part-Time Appointment Committee
Faculty of Music
Questions about this posting may be sent to:
Kirsten Yri
Chair, Part-Time Appointment Committee
musicjobs@wlu.ca
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