Music Therapy 

专业介绍

The MA program in Music Therapy prepares students to use their skills and artistry to benefit people facing a variety of mental, physical, and emotional challenges. Students learn how to work with people of all ages, including children with special needs, adults with psychiatric illness, children and adults with physical illness including the terminally ill, and elderly clients. The curriculum provides a unique combination of advanced clinical training and academic coursework to enable students to develop their own individualized approach to music therapy.

Career Opportunities

Music therapists work with a wide range of age groups and challenging conditions and are employed in a variety of settings, including mental health facilities, special education settings, medical hospitals, rehabilitation facilities, nursing homes, hospices, public and private schools, community clinics, and in private practice.

Special Opportunities

Off-Campus Clinical Placements

The Program in Music Therapy offers many clinical opportunities for students at all levels of training. Students have worked with talented professionals in prestigious clinical facilities throughout the New York City area, including Bellevue Hospital, Beth Israel Hospital, the NYU Medical Center and Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Baltic Street Outpatient Clinic, and the New York City Department of Education.

Nordoff-Robbins Center for Music Therapy

The center, located on campus, offers clinical opportunities for student fieldwork and internship experiences with a variety of child, adolescent, and adult clients. The center also offers an advanced training course in clinical techniques and procedures leading to certification in the Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy approach.

Guided Imagery and Music

Students may pursue a special sequence of courses in guided imagery and music, offered by the Program in Music Therapy in cooperation with the Creative Therapies Institute. Guided imagery and music is a therapeutic process that combines the inherent structure, movement, and spirit of music with an individual’s own creative process of imagery.