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CAMT Conference 2018 Preconference Workshops Thursday May 24 LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE Registration opens February 15th www.musictherapy.ca/conference 8:15am – 12:15pm HOW TO INCREASE CULTURAL COMPETENCE IN MENTAL HEALTH MUSIC THERAPY PRACTICE Sue Baines, PhD, MTA, FAMI Karie Rippin Bilger, BMT, MSW, RP, MTA Cultural competency is fast becoming an expected skill for Canadian healthcare professionals. Increasing evidence shows how awareness and understanding of overlapping contexts that deeply impact the health and well-being of our clients is integral to quality care. Recent world events illustrate the need for diverse clients to have allies in their healthcare professionals. To offer ethical practice, music therapists must enhance their understanding and awareness around issues of diversity, marginalization, and oppression. Competent mental health music therapy practice requires the ability to critically analyze culture for unremarked oppression in order to ensure the bias of the dominant culture does not impact ethical practice. Participants will increase their cultural competence through sensitivity training to enhance personal awareness. Particular attention will be focused on specific aspects of the dominant culture oppressive to persons with major mental health and addictions, especially Indigenous persons, other persons who are non-white, and persons who are non-Cisgender. Participants will be informed as to how these biases can be reflected in practice through examination of their families and communities of origin, their training, and their subsequent music therapy practice for instances of bias and possible remedy. This workshop will be helpful to those entering practice, as well as more seasoned professionals and draws together the theme of the conference with music therapy work in mental health. 1:00 – 5:00pm
FOUNDATIONS OF NMT - FROM RESEARCH TO CLINICAL PRACTICE Corene P. Hurt-Thaut, PhD Julia Beth Kowaleski, BMT, NMT, MTA This workshop will give a brief introduction and overview of the evidence-based practice of Neurologic Music Therapy (NMT), and the science foundations behind how music can influence non-musical brain and behaviors functions. A range of standardized clinical techniques will be introduced through both live and video demonstrations. Several clinical stories will be shared allowing participants to experience how NMT interventions can be used to influence cognition, sensorimotor function, speech and language, and the emotional health of music therapy clients in a variety of populations including autism, stoke, dementia, Parkinson and healthy elderly. This workshop is appropriate for music therapists of all levels and experiences who are interested in knowing more about NMT and for NMTs who want to stay engaged, share their personal stories, and hear about the latest research and clinical practice in NMT.
Dr. Sue Baines earned her Bachelor of Music (1984) from the University of Calgary, AB, Honours Bachelor of Music Therapy (1989) from Wilfrid Laurier University, ON, Master of Arts in Music Therapy (1992), New York University, NY, and PhD in Music Therapy (2013) from the University of Limerick, IR. She is a Fellow of the Association for Music and Imagery (1999) trained at the Southeast Institute for Music Centered Psychotherapy, Atlanta, GA and is certified by the Canadian Association of Music Therapists. Sue has over twenty-five years of music therapy practice working with persons with a broad spectrum of physical, emotional, social, and spiritual concerns in a variety of clinical, educational, corrections, and community health settings in New York, Toronto, and in Vancouver where she has lived since 1994. In particular, Sue has worked in in-patient psychiatry, forensic psychiatry, and community mental health with people with chronic and persistent mental illness, including persons with I.Q lower than 70. For over two decades, Sue’s research and publications have focused on music therapy and social justice with the goal of increasing ethical practice. She has taught workshops and seminars across Canada as well as in the United States, South Africa, and Ireland. Along with her current music therapy practice working in in-patient psychiatry with persons with developmental delays and in long-term care, Sue teaches in the Bachelor of Music Therapy program at Capilano College in North Vancouver and is the Editor-in-Chief for the Canadian Journal for Music Therapy.
Karie Rippin Bilger is a Registered Psychotherapist, Certified Music Therapist, and Clinical Lead of the multi-disciplinary Recreation Therapy Department at St. Joseph’s Health Centre Guelph. She holds an Honours Bachelor of Music Therapy and a Master of Social Work from Wilfrid Laurier University. Karie’s 16 years of music therapy clinical practice has focused on adults of all ages with a wide range of cognitive and physical abilities in long term care, complex continuing care, palliative care and adult day program settings. She strives to understand and work with people related to their various contexts in ways that highlight diverse strengths, but acknowledge injustice. A passion for social justice has compelled Karie to commit to the lifelong learning and critical self-reflection necessary for anti-oppressive practice. Dedication to music therapy professional issues led Karie to serve as Vice President of MTAO, and more recently, Ethics Co-Chair of CAMT. She has written and presented on music therapy ethics, professional issues, end-of-life care, cognitive impairment, acquired brain injury, and anti-oppressive practice. Karie is a qualified Cultural Competence in Healthcare trainer. A proud Nova Scotian at heart, Karie now lives in Guelph, Ontario, where she attempts to master the ideal balance of work and family life. Karie enjoys engaging with others travelling on the often bumpy, but always worthwhile journey towards cultural competence and a more just world. Dr. Corene P. Hurt-Thaut received her master’s in music therapy and her PhD with an interdisciplinary focus of music, neuroscience and statistical design, from Colorado State University. She has been the Program Director for The Academy of Neurologic Music Therapy since 1997, and is currently assistant professor and research associate at the University of Toronto, as well as an associate professor at the ArtEZ Conservatory in the Netherlands. Corene is nationally and internationally recognized for her clinical expertise in the evidence-based practice of Neurologic Music Therapy, and has numerous research publications in the area of music and motor control as well as ten book chapters highlighting specific applications of neurologic music therapy to her credit. She has served on the exam committee and on
the Board of Directors for the National Certification Board for Music Therapy (CBMT), and more recently on the Practice Analysis Committee (2015) and as a co-author of the Self-Assessment Exam (2016). Julia Beth Kowaleski received her Bachelors of Music Therapy from Wilfrid Laurier University and her Masters of Music and Health Science with a Certificate in the Collaborative Program of Neuroscience from the University of Toronto. She did her initial Neurologic Music Therapy training in 2013 and was received into the fellowship in 2017. Julia founded the first music therapy practice on the island of Antigua, using a variety of techniques including NMT to work with children, youth, and young adults to address a variety of needs. Her work in Antigua included providing training for youth and young adults about integrating children with special needs into camp environment, coordinating with Peace Corps volunteers to run workshops for public school teachers about accommodating children with special needs in the classroom, running a masterclass program for aspiring young musicians, playing trombone in a calypso band for carnival, and performing as a member of the Antigua and Barbuda Defence Force Band. Julia also learned to play steel pan, participating in a Panorama competition for carnival in the winning band. In 2017, Julia opened a music therapy center in Brampton, Ontario that specializes in neurorehabilitation and child and youth development. She also runs community music therapy groups for children through several foundations and music and movement groups for older adults. Other music therapy activities include previously being the online supervision course administrator for the CAMT and currently serving as the President of the Music Therapy Association of Ontario.
