UNIQUE COURSE AT CAP COLLEGE April 21, 1982 Tel. 985-2131 SECTION WOMEN « FOOD TRAVEL The total therapy of music PROBABLY the biggest problem for instructors in the Music Therapy program at Capilano College is describing exactly what they do. It’s easy to demonstrate, but to put down on paper the while walking up and down in an agitated way. At 78 he had been hospitalized for three years. In music therapy he began to play the experience of a music therapy session is drum and would play non something akin to trying to describe a symphony stop very loudly for 20 to someone who's never heard one. minutes after several sessions. Mr. P. soon began to talk coherently in short phrases, to calm down and to walk slowly. Mr. J. had not talked for The best way to tell about the Music Therapy program, then, is to relate the ex- penences of some of the people the music therapists have worked with. Mr. P. chattered in- cessantly and incoherently Fowl a Cordy Spanier and Alice Nott try t dents at the Chown Adult daycare centre. (photo supplied.) 30 years when he came to his first Music Therapy session. He sat at the back and joined in the first song! Slowly, he began to talk again, adding more and more words to his vocabulary. John D. was an autistic seven year old. His world consists of objects, not people. When he heard a certain classical piece of music, however, he would heir hand at the ukulele during a Music Therapy session with Cap College stu- After-Grad allow himself to dance with the therapist. Each week he made more and more contact with other people, so long as the session began with “his” music. These are just three of the reasons why the Music Therapy program is becoming widely recognized by hospitals and other in- stitutions in British Columbia. Music Therapy ts a well established field in Europe, but it is new in Canada. The program at Capilano College, which started in 1975, is the only one of its kind in the country. and has been breaking a lot of ground. Students in Music Therapy are trained in clinical practice, the disabuities of children and adults that respond to music, assessment and evaluation procedures, and professional conduct and responsibility. As well as theory. such courses. as interpersonal relauions, group dynamics, music mM provisation, dance therapy and music therapy practicum are largely ex- penential and require the students to learn through practice. haeles of the Ritz Each week the students attend a clinic, hospital, school or boarding home for at least six hours, where they are expected to run therapy sessions with different age groups. As well as learning about others, however, these students learn a great deal about themselves. Music Therapy coor- dinator, Kerry Burke, has watched many students go through the program and find themselves at first very upset and emotional as they face their chents and the insutuuions they live in. “Issues arise from settings such = as hopelessness. disease processes such as cancer and = other basic questions of man which they are facing firsthand. Large hospitals can be horrifying. these death, unknown and their residents’ bizarre behaviour or appearance frightening. Students lear to resolve their fears and anxiety in order to work with these individuals with the emagational closeness tequired by music therapy.” “It's not easy, but with group support from students and from therapists or staff, students Overcome personal CONTINUED ON PAGE C2 oy Waris HA Gowns! look your best on that special night Free Gift with Purchase Customers will receive a tree gift with any pur chase of $12 50 of more of any Ritz product Choose a beautiful evening dress from our fabulous selection starting at $52 OO April 19th - May 1st or while quantities last. * Blink Selected In Stock Wedding Gowns on Sale 20-40% off ““hang-it-all”’ The pertect travel organizer’ Opens to hang Conventantly on hook door knob anywhere Folds compactly to pack away ail your tbasic totletrios and accessories for Canad corsage ow fo, Wedding flowers’ No - $17 95 speak to floral WVPREC GManger Copmerres Door To foeggert te, ask any travel agent tos (sertte lodd Cauthver Ss Var ator C Pech bast Ole droge i te, _ oor Gulllver 5s) We have over SOO hard ta toad & umique travel acc e580nes IN BtOCk 756 Park Royal North Mall Foran appointment. phone 922 1415 922-9650 | tt v Bridal Boutique 844 Park Royal North, West Van. ( yan 1829 Lonsdale Ave © 986-2621