Karin Schumacher (therapist)

Karin Schumacher (born 1950 in Graz ) is an Austrian-German music therapist and child and adolescent psychotherapist .

Life

In the 1970s, Schumacher studied music therapy at the Vienna University of Music and elementary music and movement education at the Orff Institute in Salzburg . She is a student of the music therapist Gertrud Orff . From 1974 to 1982 she worked as a music therapist at the Berlin-Spandau mental hospital . Since 1984 she has taught as a professor in the music therapy course at the Berlin University of the Arts . In 1998 she did her doctorate at the Institute for Music Therapy at the University of Music and Theater Hamburg with the topic: "Music Therapy and Infant Research". In 2000 she received her license to practice medicine as a child and adolescent psychotherapist.

Her focus is on working with autistic children , for whose scientific research she developed the evaluation instrument "Assessment of the relationship quality EBQ". International she was u. a. Lecturer at the Vienna University of Music, the University of Music and Performing Arts in Oslo and the Pedagogical University in Vilnius .

Selected publications

• Music therapy with autistic children: music, movement and language games to integrate impaired sensory perception. Practice of Music Therapy, Vol. 12, Bärenreiter-Verlag 1993
• with Claudine Calvet: dubbing. Music therapy with children with autism (DVD) Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2007
• Music Therapy and Infant Research: Teamwork. Assessment of the relationship quality using the example of the instrumental expression of an autistic child. Peter Lang-Verlag, Pieterlen and Bern 2013
• On the history of music therapy (1968 to 2012) - a personal look back at the German-Austrian development in the second half of the 20th century with a look to the future In: T. Stegemann / E. Fitzthum (eds): Wiener Ringvorlesung Musiktherapie. Basics and fields of application of music therapy - a short textbook, Volume 11 of the Vienna Contributions to Music Therapy, Praesens-Verlag, Vienna 2013
• with Claudine Calvet and Silke Reimers: The EBQ instrument and its developmental psychology basics. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2011

Web links

• Karin Schumacher on the website of the Berlin University of the Arts
• Karin Schumacher at the German National Library