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Student of Music Therapy UPH Received an Award at the 15th World Music Therapy Congress in Tsukuba, Japan

18/07/2017 Uncategorized

Student of Music Therapy UPH Received an Award at the 15th World Music Therapy Congress in Tsukuba, Japan

UPH Students became the only delegation from Asia to receive 2017 World Congress of Music Therapy Scholarship Award

UPH Students became the only delegation from Asia to receive 2017 World Congress of Music Therapy Scholarship Award

Award from the President of WFMT, Dr.Amy Clements-Cortes for Jessica Hariwijaya, representing UPH

 

The 15th World Music Therapy Congress was held in Tsukuba, Jepang on July 4-8, 2017. This event was held for every three years by The World Federation of Music Therapy, and this time the congress was attended by more than 2800 participants from 50 different countries all around the world. This congress has become a place for music therapist from all over the world, as well as other related professions, to gather and share ideas, experience, and their work plans, including potential collaboration in the future. As a profession that is closely related to humanity, music therapist should always extend their knowledge because humans are constantly changing; the same thing goes with approaches in researches on music therapy and its practices that have to adjust with the development of era and technology. 

 
  

A great thing that also brings joy was that this time, Indonesia was represented by 7 delegates which consisted of music therapists and students of UPH Music Therapy, and one of them, Jessica Hariwijaya, has successfully achieved the 2017 World Congress of Music Therapy Scholarship Award. Jessica was the only student who has undergone her studies in Asia, whereas the other nine awardees came from universities in UK, USA, Australia, Canada, and Brazil.

On the same occasion, Jessica did a presentation based on her poster about her study on music therapy which she has practiced with stroke patients in the Medical Rehabilitation Unit of Siloam Hospital Lippo Village.

?Hopefully, through our meeting with fellow music therapist colleagues, and also with the presentations which had been attended by students from all over the world, UPH Music Therapy can get even more inspired and motivated to develop music therapy in Indonesia,? said  Monica Subiantoro, Music Therapy Study Program Coordinator, Conservatory of Music UPH. 

 

 
   

Jessica Hariwijaya, with her Poster on Music Therapy Study which had made the team won the award

 

 

Students of Music Therapy Study Program of Conservatory of Music UPH Participated in the WTMC 2017

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Participants of the 15th World Music Therapy Congress who comes from all over the world