Music Therapists

No automatable tasks identified for this role — its real, individually-assessed tasks consistently read as augmentable (60%).

• Communicate client assessment findings and recommendations in oral, written, audio, video, or other forms.
• Document evaluations, treatment plans, case summaries, or progress or other reports related to individual clients or client groups.
• Observe and document client reactions, progress, or other outcomes related to music therapy.
• Confer with professionals on client's treatment team to develop, coordinate, or integrate treatment plans.
• Customize treatment programs for specific areas of music therapy, such as intellectual or developmental disabilities, educational settings, geriatrics, medical settings, mental health, physical disabilities, or wellness.
• Identify and respond to emergency physical or mental health situations.
• Participate in continuing education.
• Establish client goals or objectives for music therapy treatment, considering client needs, capabilities, interests, overall therapeutic program, coordination of treatment, or length of treatment.
• Communicate with clients to build rapport, acknowledge their progress, or reflect upon their reactions to musical experiences.
• Select or adapt musical instruments, musical equipment, or non-musical materials, such as adaptive devices or visual aids, to meet treatment objectives.
• Sing or play musical instruments, such as keyboard, guitar, or percussion instruments.
• Assess client functioning levels, strengths, and areas of need in terms of perceptual, sensory, affective, communicative, musical, physical, cognitive, social, spiritual, or other abilities.

• Improvise instrumentally, vocally, or physically to meet client's therapeutic needs.
• Compose, arrange, or adapt music for music therapy treatments.
• Plan or structure music therapy sessions to achieve appropriate transitions, pacing, sequencing, energy level, or intensity in accordance with treatment plans.
• Integrate behavioral, developmental, improvisational, medical, or neurological approaches into music therapy treatments.
• Gather diagnostic data from sources such as case documentation, observations of clients, or interviews with clients or family members.
• Engage clients in music experiences to identify client responses to different styles of music, types of musical experiences, such as improvising or listening, or elements of music, such as tempo or harmony.
• Design music therapy experiences, using various musical elements to meet client's goals or objectives.
• Design or provide music therapy experiences to address client needs, such as using music for self-care, adjusting to life changes, improving cognitive functioning, raising self-esteem, communicating, or controlling impulses.