Cara Smith, MT-BC Umoja Global Community Music Therapy, Red Bank, New Jersey Transformation can happen in the most surprising places, even under a mango tree in a Ugandan village. In this podcast, Cara Smith tells the story of American music therapists visiting an...
Karen Wacks, EdM, LMHC, MT-BC Berklee College of Music, Boston, Massachusetts Samite Mulondo Musicians for World Harmony, Uganda, Africa In this podcast, Karen Wacks describes her 2013 partnership with Samite Mulondo. Together they examined the benefits of music...
Dena Register, PhD, MT-BC Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand Imagine traveling around the world, stepping out of your comfort zone, and finding yourself surrounded by a roomful of children in a Thai orphanage. In this podcast, Dr. Dena Register describes how music...
Ozden Pinar-Irmak, MA University of Massachusetts Boston As a result of war and conflict around the world, many people are forced to flee their countries as refugees. The forced migration has adverse impacts on children such as depression, anxiety, post-traumatic...
Amy Bliss Tenney, J.D., MT-BC, MAMT RICH in Music: Refugee-Immigrant Connection & Healing, Essex, Maryland Music therapy can help refugee children arriving in the U.S. to take pride in their own cultures while learning about and connecting to a new culture. In...
