Karen D. Goodman, PhD

Karen D. Goodman, Professor, Music is credentialed as a music therapist, a special education teacher and a licensed creative arts therapist. She received her education at University of Wisconsin - Madison, Hunter College-C.U.N.Y., Montclair State College and N.Y.U.

Professor Goodman has spent many years directing the nationally and internationally recognized undergraduate and graduate music therapy programs. Her research-based clinical work includes practice in child and adult psychiatry and developmental disabilities at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, Creative Arts Rehabilitation Center, Child Development Research Center, Communication Disorders Demonstration Program-MSU, Regional Day School at Morris, child study teams throughout New Jersey,and the Music Therapy Clinic at Montclair State.

Prof. Goodman's extensive national and international lecturing at conferences and other university programs presents issues germane to both clinical techniques (assessment, sensory integration, musical process in schizophrenia, DIR in music therapy, group music therapy, music and poetry) and educating music therapists. She represented the music therapy profession on the Advisory Board of the Creativity Foundation, founded by Dr. Silvano Arieti as well as the Advisory Board of the Child Development Research Center Board, founded by Dr. Judith Kestenberg. Professor Goodman has served as Editor of Music Therapy: The Journal of the American Association for Music Therapy.