Guylaine Vaillancourt
Bio
- Biography
Ph.D. MTA, Music Therapy Assistant Professor, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, Creative Arts Therapies Department. Ph. D. in Leadership and Change in the Profession, Antioch University, OH (2009); MA (Music Therapy), New York University (1993); BA (Music Therapy) Université du Québec à Montréal (1990)
Guylaine Vaillancourt is an accredited music therapist (MTA) and has extensive experience in oncology/palliative care, mental health, internship supervision and in private practice. Her research interests are related to mentoring apprentice music therapists for peace and social justice through community music therapy, focusing particularly on arts-based research and participatory action research particularly. She has worked in Switzerland, Venezuela and the U.S. and has taught in Cuba and Martinique. She currently serves as President of the Canadian Association for Music Therapy and is a past president of Association québécoise de musicothérapie (2003-2009). She is a North-America co-editor for Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy (www.voices.no) and is the author of Musique, musicothérapie et développement de l’enfant, which has been translated into Italian, Spanish, and English. She is a Bonny Method Guided Imagery and Music (BMGIM) Fellow.
History
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- 4 years 22 weeks
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