About Us
Welcome
Welcome to Developmental Music Health Services, LLC, your resource center for relationship-based developmental intervention, education and training services. We invite you to peruse our site to learn about our approach, philosophy and array of services designed to help individuals build healthy foundations for social-emotional development.
Mission
Our Mission is to help children, adolescents and adults with Neurodevelopmental Disorders, and Developmental and Emotional challenges engage in essential social interactions by providing the highest quality of professional consultation, support services, training and unparalleled DIRFloortime and music therapy interventions. Each of our individualized programs cater to both families and professionals.
John A. Carpente, Ph.D., MT-BC, NRMT, LCAT, DIR-C
John A. Carpente, Ph.D., MT-BC, LCAT, is a Professor of music therapy at Molloy College, Founder & Executive director of the Rebecca Center for Music Therapy and founding director of the Center for Autism and Child Development at Molloy College. He is also the Founding music therapist and creator of the DIRFloortime-based music therapy clinical and training program at the Rebecca School in New York City where he participated in weekly supervision meetings with Dr. Stanley Greenspan (creator of the DIR Model). Dr. Carpente has over 20 years of clinical and supervisory experience working in a variety of clinical settings serving children, adolescents, and adults with neurodevelopmental disorders. He received his Master of Arts degree at the Steinhart School of Education at New York University where he also completed post-graduated advanced certification training, Levels 1 & 2, in Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy. He completed his Ph.D. from Temple University where he received several research and clinical practice awards for innovation and contributions to the field of music therapy. Dr. Carpente is also certified as an Expert DIRFloortime Practitioner and trainer by the Interdisciplinary Council for Development & Learning.
Dr. Carpente has written several peer reviewed journal articles, book chapters and authored the Individual Music-Centered Assessment Profile for Neurodevelopmental Disorders (IMCAP-ND) and created the Developmental Relationship-based Music Therapy Model. He has lectured and conducted trainings worldwide has received numerous awards for his research and clinical contributions to the field.
Book Chapters Authored
Carpente, J. A. & Aigen, K. (2019). Assessment in music therapy: A music-centered perspective. In D.J. Elliott, G. McPherson, & M. Silverman (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of qualitative and philosophical assessment in music education. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Carpente, J. (2013). A research case study on the effectiveness of Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy: Accomplishing musical and social-Emotional goals. In K. Bruscia (Ed.), Case examples of improvisational music therapy. Gilsum, NH: Barcelona Publishers.
Carpente, J. (2011). Addressing core features of autism: Integrating Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy within the Developmental, Individual-Difference, Relationship-based (DIR) Floortime™ Model. In A. Meadows (Ed.), Developments in music therapy practice: Case study perspectives. Gilsum, NH: Barcelona Publishers.
Book Reviews Published
Carpente, J. (2004, October). [Review of the book Improvisation: Methods and techniques for music therapy clinicians, educators, and students by T. Wigram, Nordic Journal website, Winter 2005.
Carpente, J. (2004, May). [Review of the book Music therapy in palliative care: New voices by D. Aldridge] Nordic Journal website (Winter 2004).
Magazine and Online Periodicals
Carpente, J. A. (2015, Summer). The times they are-a changing’: Rethinking autism spectrum disorder treatment and research. Molloy Magazine, 16, 16-18.
Carpente, J. (2008). Glimpse into the use of Music Therapy and the DIR Floortime model for children with autism. Early Childhood Newsletter Vol. 14, Summer 2008, online http://www.musictherapy.org/events/earlychild.pdf.
Carpente, J. (2005). The Rebecca Center for music therapy developing programs at The JCC, Music therapy matters, volume 8, American Music Therapy Association.
Carpente, J. (2004). A brief look at the guitar in Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy. Musicing: the Newsletter of the international association of Nordoff-Robbins music therapists, Winter vol. 1, pp. 13-19.
Dissertation and Thesis
Carpente, J. (1999). The music of free spirit: Creating a social system through music within a group of individuals afflicted with the AIDS Virus and substance abuse. Unpublished thesis. New York University.
Journal Articles authored
Carpente, J. A. (2018). Goal Attainment Scaling: A Method for Evaluating Progress toward Developmentally Based Music-Centered Treatment Goals for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Music Therapy Perspectives. mix021, https://doi.org/10.1093/mtp/mix021 .
Gottfried, T., Thompson, G., Carpente, J., & Gattino, G. (2016). Music in everyday life by parents with their children with autism. Nordic Journal of Music Therapy, 25(sup1), 89-90.
News and Video
TBN Network
Dr. John Carpente interview: Music Therapy & Autism published by TBN Network
Wendy Shulman
Music Therapy and Autism with Dr. John Carpente & Wendy Shulman