Lovran, Croatia

Skill Enhancement Through Music Concepts, Methods, and Techniques to Empower

As you already know, music therapy is a clinically and scientifically proven application of musical interventions with the aim of achieving individualised and clearly defined goals in therapeutic, psychological, and educational relationships with the help of a music therapist. It represents the use of music and/or its elements (sound, rhythm, melody, harmony), individually or in a group process, so as to provide and enhance communication and learning, stimulation of expression, and other important clinical goals, to achieve physical, emotional, mental, social, and cognitive needs.
There are a number of different evidence-based models and methods in music therapy, adapted to people with various difficulties. This summer school addresses those models and methods that are primarily focused on the rehabilitation of language difficulties

Course leader

Ljiljana Pačić-Turk, Assistant Professor, Head of the Department of Psychology, Catholic University of Croatia

Target group

The summer school is primarily intended for rehabilitators and therapists (in particular speech therapists and music therapists), psychologists and psychiatrists, educators and trainers, musicians and experts working in the musical field with educational, therapeutic, or rehabilitation goals, as well as other professions and students of related subjects.

Course aim

The goal of this summer school is to provide participants a set of concepts, practical tools, and techniques involving music, which are applicable across the life span (targeting children, adolescents, adults, elderly people). During the summer school the participants will be familiar with the practical application of music-based activities used for educational/edutainment, empowerment, prevention, and rehabilitation purposes in order to support the development of basic skills involved in everyday life, instruction, and professional practice.

Fee info

EUR 890: The registration fee includes accommodation in single rooms during the summer school, three meals a day (starting on Sunday, 3rd of September 2023, with dinner and ending on Saturday, 9th of September 2023, with lunch) together with summer school materials and the Certificate of Attendance.
The registration fee does not include travel expenses to Lovran, nor the excursion provided in the program.