Ohio Administrative Code › Title 4757 - Counselor, Social Worker, and Marriage and Family Therapist Board › Chapter 4757-24 - Music Therapy › Section 4757-24-04 - Scope of practice for a music therapist

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A)
								Music therapy means the clinical use of music
			 interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic
			 relationship through an individualized music therapy treatment plan developed
			 for a client. Music therapy interventions include, but are not limited to:
			 improvisation, receptive music listening, song writing, lyric discussion, music
			 and imagery, singing, performance, learning through music, music combined with
			 other arts, music-assisted relaxation, music-based patient education,
			 electronic music technology, adapted music intervention, and movement to
			 music.
(B)
								Music therapy services means the services a licensee is
			 authorized to provide to achieve the goals of music therapy, which may include,
			 but are not limited to: accepting referrals for music therapy services,
			 conducting a music therapy assessment, developing and implementing an
			 individualized music therapy treatment plan, evaluating and documenting client
			 responses to music therapy, and utilizing appropriate knowledge and skills to
			 inform practice.
(C)
								The practice of music therapy does not include the
			 screening, diagnosis, or assessment of any physical, mental, emotional, or
			 communication disorder.
(D)
								A licensed professional music therapist will
			 collaborate in the provision of music therapy and music therapy services.
(1)
									Before a licensed
			 professional music therapist provides music therapy services to a client for an
			 identified clinical or developmental need, the licensee shall review, as
			 appropriate, the client's diagnosis, treatment needs, and treatment plan with
			 the health care providers involved in the client's care. Before a licensed
			 professional music therapist provides music therapy services to a student for
			 an identified educational need in a special education setting, the licensee
			 shall review with the individualized family service plan team or individualized
			 education program team the student's diagnosis, treatment needs, and treatment
			 plan.
(2)
									During the provision of music therapy services to a
			 client, the licensed professional music therapist shall collaborate, as
			 applicable, with the client's treatment team, including the client's physician,
			 professional licensed under Chapter 4757. of the Revised Code, psychologist, or
			 other appropriately licensed healthcare professional. During the provision of
			 music therapy services to a client with a communication disorder, the licensed
			 professional music therapist shall collaborate and discuss the music therapy
			 treatment plan with the client's audiologist or speech-language pathologist so
			 that a music therapist may work with the client and address communication
			 skills.
(3)
									When providing educational or health care services, a
			 licensed professional music therapist may not replace the services provided by
			 an audiologist or a speech-language pathologist. Unless authorized to practice
			 speech-language pathology, music therapists may not evaluate, examine,
			 instruct, or counsel on speech, language, communication, and swallowing
			 disorders and conditions. An individual licensed as a professional music
			 therapist may not represent to the public that the individual is authorized to
			 treat a communication disorder. This does not prohibit an individual licensed
			 as a professional music therapist from representing to the public that the
			 individual may work with clients who have a communication disorder and address
			 communication skills.