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Senior Staff of the music therapy department have an average of 20 years as a clinical music therapy supervisors. The department has institutional affiliations with New York University, Molloy College, the New School of Social Research, Montclair State University, and SUNY New Paltz. It has been an approved training site for the American Association for Music Therapy since 1981.


Since 1995, an international clinical training program has been offered for graduate music therapy and post-graduate students from university programs in Germany, Korea, Japan, Spain and Denmark. Dr. Tomaino is on the faculty of the New York State Geriatric Education Center, which highlights music therapy as part of its core program and its training modules on long term care and geriatric rehabilitation.


The team leads in-service training courses on the various uses of music therapy for in-house staff as well as receiving visits from students and professionals from all over the world who want to learn more about the music therapy program at BAFHS. Each member of the music therapy team regularly presents papers on their clinical work and research and national and international conferences.


Benedikte Scheiby has developed an advanced supervision training program that offers invidual supervision services for post-graduate music therapists.