Programme

The summer school programme will be realised at the Spiritual-Educational Centre Mary’s Court in Lužnica, for 5 (five) days from 22 July to 26 July 2019.

The summer school will be held in English. No specific musical skills are required.

However, if a participant plays a musical instrument, they may take it with them if they want.

The programme is organised by the Catholic University of Croatia, Department of Psychology, and conducted in collaboration with the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Facoltà di Psicologia, Milan, Italy.

The summer school is primarily intended for rehabilitators and therapists (in particular speech therapists and music therapists), psychologists and psychiatrists, educators and trainers, musicians and experts working in the musical field with educational, therapeutic or rehabilitation goals, as well as other professions and students of related subjects.

 The curriculum consists of lectures (the purpose of which is to explain the theoretical basis of the rehabilitation procedures to be presented and to describe and give examples of rehabilitation procedures to be learned), practical exercises (in which participants are involved in the implementation of rehabilitation procedures and their adaptation to the areas in which they work), and workshops (personal development – growth workshops, whose purpose is to encourage participants to reflect their own characteristics and characteristics in the music experience process and to build up some professional communication and interpersonal skills with the help of music).

The plan of the scheduled activities is as follows:

List of teachers:

• Alessandro Antonietti, Professor of Applied Cognitive Psychology, Facoltà di Psicologia, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy
• Dario Benatti, music therapist, Professor of Musical Techniques for Wellbeing, Facoltà di Psicologia, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy
• Alice Cancer, researcher, teaching assistant of Psychological Testing, Facoltà di Psicologia, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy
• Ljiljana Pačić-Turk, Assistant Professor, Head of the Department of Psychology, Catholic University of Croatia, Zagreb, Croatia
• Ksenija Burić, PhD, music therapist, Orff music pedagogue; head of Musical Therapy at the Croatian Association of Musical Therapists
• Ana Katušić, Assistant Professor, prof. rehabilit, head of education of music therapy at the Croatian Association of Musical Therapists, lecturer at the Postgraduate Specialist Study of Creative Therapy – Musical Therapy
• Josipa Gelo, mag. psych, Department of Psychology, Catholic University of Croatia, Zagreb, Croatia
• Ana Šeremet, mag. psych, Department of Psychology, Catholic University of Croatia, Zagreb, Croatia

Certificate 

After completing the programme, the participants will receive a Certificate of Programme/Summer School Attendance and acquired ECTS credits. In addition to the Certificate, an additional document containing the list of subjects, learning outcomes of the subjects and the acquired 10 ECTS credits and the acquired competences with the practical application will be attached.