The inclusion of music therapy in health professions

The inclusion of music therapy in health professions will help:

• its progressive integration into public health and special education settings, making it accessible to those in need,
• to protect the public as it will demand formal qualifications for its practice,
• the establishment of music therapy as an autonomous scientific specialty distinct from music pedagogy and music in special education.

Music therapy is an internationally established and evidence-based health profession in which music is used in the context of a therapeutic relationship with goals related to the physical, psycho-emotional, cognitive and social needs of individuals.

It includes the clinical and evidence based use of musical interventions to achieve individual or group goals by a qualified therapist who has completed an approved university academic program.

The Hellenic Association of Graduate Professional Music Therapists (ESPEM) is a Scientific Professional Association founded in 2004 with the aim of promoting and safeguarding the science of music therapy in Greece. The Association has been a member of the European Confederation of Music Therapy(EMTC) since 2008 and the World Federation of Music Therapysince 2016. His members are highly skilled professionals with undergraduate and/or graduate Music Therapy degrees.