In this session we have talked about music therapy training and legislations in Turkey.

Per usual we have started with a mindfulness exercise. I will have a midterm couple of days

later, so I was feeling tension in my body, and I was stressed. So, the exercise really helped me at

least couple of minutes to really focus on myself and at the moment. At the beginning of the

exercise, I felt tension, stressed but later I felt serenity. Then we started the class with looking at

the legislations and we have discussed the gaps in these legislations. We have talks about

definition of music therapy, but this definition did not emphasize the therapeutic relationship and

we have discussed this definition. Then we have talked about who can practice GETAT

applications and it is only doctors and dentists as well as music therapist as the auxiliaries. This

made feel sad because of only doctors and dentists able to practice it. It seemed unfair and this

also made feel me anger. In addition, we have also talked about compared to America how

required practice hours are insufficient. In America you have to get at least 120 hours of therapy

however in Turkey this is just 5 sessions. This is also made me feel sad. During this discussion I

felt that how much we have to develop and has a long way to go as a country. And finally, we

have looked at the Müzik Terapi Akademisi website and that made feel joy and happiness since I

was able to see various music therapists.