This study is find out the way to improve the clinical practicum training of graduate students majoring music therapy. This study conducted a survey of 117 graduate students, from second to fifth semester students who have clinical training experience...
This study is find out the way to improve the clinical practicum training of graduate students majoring music therapy. This study conducted a survey of 117 graduate students, from second to fifth semester students who have clinical training experience.
The survey result shows that most of the respondents has high satisfaction level on practical training and supervision. By category, satisfaction level on the course and curriculum were highest, followed by supervision and clinical training. However, satisfaction level on supervision showed the highest average by sub-category and the role of the supervisor was the highest among them. In general, the group who did not majored music in their undergraduate showed higher satisfaction level than the group who majored music in their undergraduate. The average gap between these two groups was significant in some part. Among supervision, clinical training p=.09(p<0.1)shows significant difference. There was also difference on satisfaction level according to students' semester. Among the role of supervisor, knowledge provision p=.016(p<.05)showed meaningful difference. Also, factors related to supervision showed positive correlation both with clinical training satisfaction level and course and curriculum satisfaction level. The survey found that the supervisors' role was the most decisive factor on supervision satisfaction level and clinical training satisfaction level. Knowledge provision was exerting the strongest influence, followed by relation. In addition, in the supervision category, identity and expert of music therapy were showing correlation as well. In course and curriculum category, music therapy technical factor showed the highest impact. The survey asked to select 3 courses which were helpful for clinical training. Clinical techniques in music therapy ranked first, and improvisation ranked second with a narrow margin. However, the result was slightly different according to respondents' semester and major.
This survey is meaningful as it is paving the way for more satisfactory clinical training by providing the basic data which could be used to improve the clinical training system, form the foundation to prepare diverse clinical training contents, and offer important guidelines to students in the clinical training course what kind of talent and characteristic they should develop.