Bibliography-Topic: Music Therapy

American Music Therapy Association http://www.namt.com/

This site has been created for all population who need any kind of information about Music Therapy. People who have just find the existence of Music therapy can start to know about what is Music therapy, where and how to find a therapist, and how Music Therapy works on what kind of population. Students who want to search on Music Therapy can begin their research from the links on this site, and the links are connected to other sites that have academic information. In addition, Professional Music Therapists are able to take advantages of this site as well. the site contains information about membership, regional and world conference, how to get journal on academic information on Music Therapy, and the events coming up. This site holds a lot of information and links, and all information is conceived as reliable because the site has been belong to official organ, American Music Therapy Association. The history of Music Therapy and the history of this organization are briefly explained, and it is useful to understand initial idea about Music Therapy and the purpose of this organization. Those information can help the audience to know how to judge all information which this site holds. The address and phone numbers are listed to make contacts with them, with the explanation of what is the organization for.

Canadian Association for Music Therapy http://www.musictherapy.ca/

This site is an official property of Canadian Association for Music therapy. And the information appears on this site seem to be reliable because it has where to make contacts, and last updated dates which is lately. It has a brief history on Music therapy, a definition of Music therapy so that the audience can get to know what Music Therapy is, and information about how the elements of music can be applied to the clients. There is an explanation abut this organization, how to make contacts with them or other public facilities, such as schools. This site is open to people who are going to need information on Music therapy actually to utilize it, and also people who are studying on Music therapy and working as a therapist. Although General information about Music Therapy and practical information is available for students, to extend the research on Music Therapy and the its situation in real application in society. People will need to try another web sites by themselves for advanced and specific information since there is no list of links that usually helps the audience to get similar but new details on the topic.

Music Therapy at California State University, Northridge http://www.csun.edu/~hcmus006/MusicTherapy.html

This site has been created by the students, teachers, and other staff involved in Music Therapy program at California State University, Northridge. As a site of university, it holds really useful and important information such as about Music Therapy itself, the Music Therapy program at CSUN, and further information about Music Therapy in terms of practical purpose. For students who are currently belonging to the Music Therapy program, the MTAN page created by the members of MTAN is a useful resource to get fresh information about how are they doing and what kind of things will be coming up around them. That is very important for them to know by keeping touch with the peers & usually updated information through the site. Also, this site contains the information that is very helpful for the students who are trying to get into the program and to aim at being Music Therapists to understand what is required for them to achieve their goals. There is detailed information about clinics that is available at CSUN; introducing the clinicians with their pictures, the costs for sessions, and how those therapies will work. Mr. Borczon, who is a professor of this Music Therapy program at CSUN are available for everyone to ask questions by clicking his e-mail address which is appeared on the site. This site is created for the purpose of educational achievement for Music Therapy.

National Coalition of Arts Therapies Associations (NCATA) http://www.ncata.com/ This site take responsibility with comprehensive genres of Arts Therapy. There are explanations about Art therapy, Dance therapy, Drama Therapy, Music Therapy, Psychodrama, and Poetry Therapy. Each text on every category contains introductory information and explanation of what it is , and how it could be beneficial. There is informative lists of upcoming events of any Arts Therapy, and they are available to make contacts through e-mails. Also, the address and phone number of NCATA are listed on the site. This site belongs to a national organization, and linked to other national or official organizations, such as American music Therapy Association, and information is considered as reliable. Therapists can check out this sites and get new information about events, and also the fact that any people can ask question through e-mail immediately is very useful and handy way to offer this kind of information in public place.

Stanley Jordan's Music Therapy Links http://www.stanleyjordan.com/Links/MusicTherapy.html This is a huge and very extensive site. In terms of the amount of information is large, the quality of information is very academic and is for practical purpose, and the topics covered are so comprehensive. Music Therapists are able to read articles on particular topics, survey, to check resources & books on Music therapy. It is also available for people to get other kind of academic information such as about music sources, music education, and other arts therapy. Contents are very clear to see; each topics and information are in the form of list and making an outline so that people can immediately know what kind of information is available from this site. The list of school with Music Therapy program and organization is covering from all states in the U.S. and also internationally. All of the sites linked from this site also have high quality in terms of their contents, and very beneficial. This is a very useful site for therapists and students to extend ones knowledge.