The 1980s and 1990s.
Music therapist is a new profession that emerged in Europe and the United States in the middle of the last century, and the profession began to be introduced to China in the 1980s, but in the initial years, music therapy was only known as an emerging discipline and an emerging research watershed for some researchers in related fields, and there were not many music therapists who were really working as a professional profession. In the past 30 years of development, music therapy has shown a vigorous development of vitality and is characterized by its wide range of application areas and in-depth penetration of disciplines.
Gradually, music therapy has entered the medical, health, education, social work, and other large-scale fields related to it. Music therapists apply music and other means in the medical and health, psychological, rehabilitation, education, relief, social work and other areas of the visitors to carry out the corresponding treatment work of a profession. From 1944 and 1946, in the United States, Michigan State University and the University of Kansas has established a specialized music therapy courses to train specialized music therapists began the world's first music therapists were born.
From the sixties to the seventies, some European countries, such as the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and East and West Germany, Australia, France, Switzerland, Belgium, Yugoslavia, Canada, the establishment of specialized institutions or therapeutic associations of music therapy, seventy years later, there are Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Uruguay, Japan, New Zealand, Israel, Finland, Italy, Poland, Spain, South Africa, Portugal and other countries have established a music therapy profession.
To date, 150 universities in 45 countries around the world have established music therapy programs. In developed countries in Europe and the United States, music therapy has formed a social profession, only the United States has more than 6,000 registered music therapists in psychiatric hospitals, general hospitals, geriatric hospitals, children's hospitals, special education schools and a variety of psychological clinics.