Music therapy in the 21st Century in Spain: professional, training and associative situation and development

Abstract

The development of Music Therapy in Spain is quite recent, the discipline being introduced in the 70's of the 20th century by Dr. Serafina Poch Blasco. Since then, training in the field has been consolidated, firstly in courses and conferences to raise awareness and as an extension of care resources for related professionals, and later in the form of postgraduate-master's degrees in universities (public and private) and in private centers. At the same time, music therapists have been organizing themselves as a collective through different groups, and carrying out initiatives, on the one hand, for intra-professional growth; and on the other hand, political actions for professional regulation, which, although it seems close, has not yet arrived. This article aims to review the main events that have marked the professional, formative and associative evolution of Music Therapy in recent times.