«Il mestiere si impara» — the craft can be learned
Five volumes on the craft of the music therapist — observing, designing, evaluating — plus an operational companion. 311 pages in Italian, free to download under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0.
1 · Observing in Music Therapy
The first skill of the music therapist, the one all others rest on: telling what you see from what you think. With three ready-to-use observation grids, a video-analysis protocol and practice exercises.
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2 · Designing Music Therapy Projects
Turning a clinical intuition into a clear, credible, defensible project: needs analysis, measurable goals, methodology, timeline, budget, evaluation. A single case runs through every chapter.
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3 · The Project Workbook
Five complete projects, written out in full, in the five most frequent settings: nursing home, primary school, neurological rehabilitation, secondary school, mental health. Not templates to copy: examples to question.
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4 · Evaluating in Music Therapy
Replacing "they are doing better" with something that can be verified: baselines, evaluation designs within reach of clinical practice, clinical significance, and the discipline's own tools, from MiDAS to MATADOC.
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5 · Other People's Tools
A reasoned repertoire of over one hundred tests and scales the music therapist meets in team meetings — across preventive, educational, rehabilitative and socio-health settings. Knowing them does not authorize administering them: it teaches how to read them.
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+ The Music Therapist's Clinical Record
The series' operational companion, as a spreadsheet: personal data, sound history, goals, session log, automatic charts — with one case filled in from start to finish, session by session.
The suggested reading order: Observing → Designing (with the Workbook alongside) → Evaluating, keeping Other People's Tools open whenever needed.
