Music Therapy Clinician: Supporting reflective clinical practice Volume 1 | Page 42

Submission Guidelines Music therapists worldwide are invited to submit:  Reflections in the form of original essays, music (with words or without), visual artwork (in all forms), or experiences related to becoming a music therapist. Examples of this can include: something in your work with a client or group that caught you off-guard, forced you to re-think your approach, clinical moments that created a strong, or unexpected, emotional reaction, life and learning experiences, pieces of poetry, conversations, interviews that have struck you or helped you gain some clarity or shift your perspective in some way.  We also welcome readers’ well-reasoned and thoughtful comments, opinions, or counterpoints in response to the articles we publish. These can be sent either as Letters to the Editors or full-length essays.  While we don’t, at this time, receive books for review, we invite you to share your recent publications or reviews of books you’ve read recently relating to music therapy. A note about the writing voice we’d like you to use: We encourage you to think and reflect deeply, using your writing, playing, and sharing to grow into a stronger sense and awareness of who you are professionally, what you believe and how you practice as a clinician. In terms of what this means for contributors, we’d like you to write in a narrative form - as if you were presenting out loud or sharing a story with a group of colleagues or friends. We’re especially interested in learning about the details of your clinical experiences, how they’ve affected you, and what you have learned about yourself and about your work in the process. We’d like the language to be clinical but accessible and engaging, and written in the first person. By that we mean to invite a more casual or conversational approach to the writing. Submission formats: Please use the following formats to submit your work:  A text version (Microsoft Word .DOC file is preferred)  Sound files (MP3 is preferred)  High quality image files - the original version is best (JPEG is preferred)  List of website links (if applicable) you want attached to your article/submission  Please use APA style referencing If you need help converting your piece(s) into the necessary formats, please contact our Design Editor, Ellen de Havilland, at [email protected]. 39 | P a g e