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I Want To Be A Music Therapist Essay

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I’ve always wondered what I was going to be when I grew up, but I just could never find the right job. I would always run into the problem of either finding a career that I wouldn’t like or one that I wouldn’t understand. However, according to the Holland Code I am investigative, social, and artistic. This has shown to open a lot of career ideas for me; especially ones that include interacting and helping with others. Looking through all of them, there were a few that I definitely have thought of. However, there were also ones that never came to mind, which got me thinking more about what I could really do. One of the occupations that immediately caught my eye was “Mental Health Counselors”. Mental Health Counselors work with and help individuals …show more content…

I’ve only ever heard of the term, but I never actually knew what it was that they do. However, looking more into it made me interested. To summarize, music therapists prescribe musical therapy activities to influence someone 's psychological or behavioral status. Examples of this would be singing songs or playing instruments that target specific goals and objectives. All of this requires some considerable preparation when considering the job. Taking a look at the common work activities, there’s ‘establishing and maintaining interpersonal relationships’, ‘making decisions and solving problems’, and ‘developing objectives and strategies’. While I wouldn’t mind taking on activities like these, I believe it would be a bit of a more challenging occupation for me, and even might not be for me. I believe the main problem would be developing objectives and strategies. I know that could be something I could learn easily, but it’s not exactly up my alley. I would have no problem with the other ones, because there wouldn’t be a problem with establishing relationships with whoever I’m helping or making choices and finding answers to problems. It’s just the worry of not being able to think of the ways to help the people I assist because I’m never too sure about my ideas and advice or if they actually help the people I give them

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