Maximizing Your Career
© 2008
Cathy Knoll, MA, MT-BC
Dellinda Henry, MEd, MT-BC
Dwight Knoll
FREE eco-friendly online mini-course
Optional 5 CMTE credits $25.00
Maximizing Your Career is a music therapy mini-course available to you at no cost or obligation. The practical, down-to-earth mini-course provides specific guidelines and strategies for helping music therapists achieve success and satisfaction in their careers. The course explores issues such as job descriptions, professional standards and responsibilities, insurance, documentation, time management, quality services, ethics, conflict resolution, stress management, and others. The workbook includes guidelines for developing work-related forms such as referrals, assessments, progress notes, legal forms, and reports. Just send a quick request via e-mail CathyKnoll@MusicWorksPublications.com and we will send you an e-mail with the FREE mini-course, including an attached pdf workbook and links to the audio discussion. You can print the workbook or read the .pdf on your computer. You can download the .mp3 audio tracks or listen on-line.
Chapter 1: Professional Responsibilities
Chapter 2: Professional Protection
Chapter 3: Documentation
Chapter 4: Time Issues
Chapter 5: The Main Thing
Chapter 6: Professionalism
Chapter 7: Lots of Good Stuff
Remember, to receive this FREE mini-course – pdf workbook and audio files – just send a brief request to CathyKnoll@MusicWorksPublications.com Check out our other FREE mini-courses, and tell your colleagues about these helpful professional resources.
Optional CMTE credits. Music therapists can earn 5 pre-approved CMTE credits for just $5 per credit hour by reviewing the workbook materials, listening to the audio segments, answering the questions for each chapter, and then completing the CMTE application packet. You may take the mini-course now and apply for credits anytime in the future. Whether you take the course for CMTE credit or not, Music Works Publications commends you for taking steps to boost your professional development.
When you apply for CMTE credit, you will submit a CMTE packet that includes: (1) a copy of your choice of two “Opportunities for Growth” assignments, (2) the required 2-page CMTE Evaluation form located at the back of the workbook, and (3) a check paid to the order of Music Works Publications for your $25 CMTE fee. You must keep a copy of your packet in the event it is lost in the mail. Send the CMTE packet to Dellinda Henry, MT-BC, 9471 Brushy Point Street, San Antonio, TX 78250. Complete CMTE information is available in the back of the course workbook.
Learning Objectives Participants in the Maximizing Your Career course will:
- Develop skill in analyzing their job description, workplace policies and procedures, and professional standards and responsibilities.
- Develop knowledge about insurance issues, documentation, legal issues, safety, and security.
- Develop a system for efficient collection and reporting of relevant clinical data.
- Develop skills for effectively managing schedules and on-the-job time.
- Develop a plan for providing efficient, effective therapy services.
- Develop a plan for maintaining the highest level of professionalism at work.
- Review guidelines for developing professional paperwork.
Maximizing Your Career addresses these competencies of the CBMT Scope of Practice:
- II. B. Conduct Assessment: 2 and 5.
- II. C. Interpret and Report Assessment Information: 5
- IV. A. Documentation: 1, 2, 3, 4
- V. A. Professional Development: 1 through 6
- V. B. Professional Responsibilities: 1 through 18
Instructors. Cathy Knoll, MA, MT-BC and Dellinda Henry, MEd, MT-BC
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Statement of relationship to CBMT: Maximizing Your Career is approved by the Certification Board of Music Therapists (CBMT) for 5 Continuing Music Therapy Education credits (CMTE). Credits awarded by CBMT are accepted by the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC). Music Works Publications, S-001, maintains responsibility for program quality and adherence to CBMT policies and criteria. See the CMTE Information page for details.