education & training

• Orientation & Observation • International Training Institute • Internship Opportunities • Thanks to Scandinavia

Introduction

Training and Education
The music therapists of the Armstrong Team provide clinical music therapy supervision. Prospective interns may apply at any time by requesting an application and sending it in with a video of themselves playing guitar, piano, a wind or string and singing. Wind and string players are welcomed and favored. The department has institutional affiliations with Drexel University, New York University, Temple University, Loyola College, Molloy College, Montclair State University, and Berklee College of Music. It has been an approved training site for the American Association for Music Therapy (AMTA) since 1981 and on the National Roster of the American Music Therapy Association since the merge in 1998. The internship fosters skills in the AMTA professional competency areas of music foundations and skills, clinical foundations of therapy, ethics, research and foundations and principles of music therapy assessment, treatment planning, implementation, evaluation and documentation (for more on the professional competencies go to http://www.musictherapy.org/competencies.html ). Read more about internship opportunities here.
International clinical training has included university programs in Germany, Korea, Japan, Europe and Scandinavia. Kristen Stewart is the Clinical Director of the internship program. Dr. Loewy teaches at Hahnemann Creative Arts in Therapy Program at Drexel University and is affiliated with New York University.

Training for Non-Interns
The Louis Armstrong Music Therapy Programs provide two-day orientation and observation for professionals and students who would like to observe and/or learn more about all of our music therapy programs at Beth Israel. This official training program became customized in January 2006 due to the growing interest in our program and the number of observations requested. Our team seeks to organize and consolidate the experience of the observer. In this way each visit includes overview of a broad range of populations, clinical music therapy techniques and areas of clinical interest that professionals and students desire to learn about. This best seems to meet the needs of our visitors as well, and most accurately reflects the full range of practice and techniques that we provide in medical music therapy.

The first day of the visit is an orientation, complete with video and a folder of medical music psychotherapy articles and readings as it pertains to our program. The orientation includes a tour and some experiential work as well. Day two is an observation day. We try to cater this to the population of the observer's choice, and provide processing time for the observation. The fee for the two days is $190.

Interested trainees may call Carolyn Patterson at (212) 420-2704 to schedule a time or email info@musicandmedicine.org .

Supervision for Professionals
The Louis Armstrong Center for Music & Medicine also provides individual and/or group supervision for professional music therapists. This supervision meets the requirements for licensure as a creative arts therapist in New York State. For further information, please call (212) 420-2704 or email info@musicandmedicine.org.