This AMTA.Pro LiveReport is from the Southwestern AMTA regional conference in Amarillo, Texas in March, 2010. You can hear the sounds of the conference in the background as several dozen music therapy professionals and students share brief, informal comments during the conference while zipping from session to session, building their skills and sharpening their expertise in the vital, growing field of music therapy.

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Music therapists – many of whom have decades of professional experience – share insightful comments for this LiveReport about their career or job structure, about a tried-and-true or newly discovered music therapy intervention, or about an “aha!” moment in music therapy. Several professors talk about their growing programs and plans for educating future music therapists. This LiveReport ends with brief comments by five articulate music therapy students. Please note that these discussions are informal, unrehearsed, and recorded on the fly as people race from one conference session to another. You will hear the noise of the conference swirling around, and you will pick up on the positive, pro-active attitude of music therapists and students in the Southwestern American Music Therapy Association as they anticipate growth and vitality in music therapy services in Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico.

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