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Clive Robbins
Dr. Clive Robbins, MT-BC, is a co-originator of Creative Music Therapy and has worked with developmentally and multiply disabled children for over fifty years. Throughout his sixteen years of teamwork, beginning in 1959, with Dr. Paul Nordoff, Dr. Robbins was continuously active in the practice, documentation, study, research, and demonstration of creative music therapy with children and adolescents and worked with children presenting a wide range of disabling conditions. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s he engaged in explorative clinical practice and research in a variety of settings in the United States, and in traveling and teaching extensively in treatment, training, and demonstration projects with children and adolescents in manylocations in Europe and Scandinavia.
From 1975 – 1981 he worked together with his wife Carol Robbins at the New York State School for the Deaf at Rome, New York and, in 1982, he relocated to Australia and established music therapy programs at Warrah Village, and Inala School, Sydney, Australia. During these years Clive Robbins was closely involved in establishing and developing treatment, training and research centers for the practice of Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy in London (1974), Germany (1980), and Australia (1984). In 1989, with Carol Robbins, he established the Nordoff-Robbins Center for Music Therapy at New York University.
Through his clinical practice, teaching, supervision, lectures, workshops, writings, and media presentations with Paul Nordoff, 1959-74; Carol Robbins, 1975-96: and subsequently in collaboration with staff members of the Nordoff-Robbins Ceter for Music Therapy at New York University. Dr. Robbins has become internationally recognized for his teaching of clinical resources, his research into processes of music therapy, and for his commitment to higher standards of clinical practice, creativity and musicianship in music therapy. He continues to travel and teach internationally.
Clive Robbins holds honorary doctorates from Combs College of Music, Philadelphia; The University of Witten/Herdecke, Germany, and the State University of New York. With Paul Nordoff, he co-authored Music Therapy for Handicapped Children, 1965, St George Books; Therapy in Music for Handicapped Children, 1971-2005, Music Therapy in Special Education, 1971-2006, Creative Music Therapy, 1977-2007, all published by Barceona Publishers; and many books of musical activities for children, published by Theodore Presser. With Carol Robbins, he co-authored Music for the Hearing Impaired and Other Special Groups; Snow White: A Guide to Child Centered Music Theatre, Barcelona Publishers, and songs and musical plays for children. Together they also edited Healing Heritage: Paul Nordoff Exploring the Tonal Language of Music, 1998, Barcelona Publishers. With Michele Ritholz he edited Themes for Therapy 1999, and More Themes for Therapy 2003, Karl Fischer, New York. in 1997 he published What a Wonderful Song her Life Sang: An Anthology of Appreciation for Carol Robbins, and in 2005 he published A Journey into Creative Music Therapy, Barcelona Publishers.
Clive Robbins
Dr. Clive Robbins, MT-BC, is a co-originator of Creative Music Therapy and has worked with developmentally and multiply disabled children for over fifty years. Throughout his sixteen years of teamwork, beginning in 1959, with Dr. Paul Nordoff, Dr. Robbins was continuously active in the practice, documentation, study, research, and demonstration of creative music therapy with children and adolescents and worked with children presenting a wide range of disabling conditions. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s he engaged in explorative clinical practice and research in a variety of settings in the United States, and in traveling and teaching extensively in treatment, training, and demonstration projects with children and adolescents in manylocations in Europe and Scandinavia.
From 1975 – 1981 he worked together with his wife Carol Robbins at the New York State School for the Deaf at Rome, New York and, in 1982, he relocated to Australia and established music therapy programs at Warrah Village, and Inala School, Sydney, Australia. During these years Clive Robbins was closely involved in establishing and developing treatment, training and research centers for the practice of Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy in London (1974), Germany (1980), and Australia (1984). In 1989, with Carol Robbins, he established the Nordoff-Robbins Center for Music Therapy at New York University.
Through his clinical practice, teaching, supervision, lectures, workshops, writings, and media presentations with Paul Nordoff, 1959-74; Carol Robbins, 1975-96: and subsequently in collaboration with staff members of the Nordoff-Robbins Ceter for Music Therapy at New York University. Dr. Robbins has become internationally recognized for his teaching of clinical resources, his research into processes of music therapy, and for his commitment to higher standards of clinical practice, creativity and musicianship in music therapy. He continues to travel and teach internationally.
Clive Robbins holds honorary doctorates from Combs College of Music, Philadelphia; The University of Witten/Herdecke, Germany, and the State University of New York. With Paul Nordoff, he co-authored Music Therapy for Handicapped Children, 1965, St George Books; Therapy in Music for Handicapped Children, 1971-2005, Music Therapy in Special Education, 1971-2006, Creative Music Therapy, 1977-2007, all published by Barceona Publishers; and many books of musical activities for children, published by Theodore Presser. With Carol Robbins, he co-authored Music for the Hearing Impaired and Other Special Groups; Snow White: A Guide to Child Centered Music Theatre, Barcelona Publishers, and songs and musical plays for children. Together they also edited Healing Heritage: Paul Nordoff Exploring the Tonal Language of Music, 1998, Barcelona Publishers. With Michele Ritholz he edited Themes for Therapy 1999, and More Themes for Therapy 2003, Karl Fischer, New York. in 1997 he published What a Wonderful Song her Life Sang: An Anthology of Appreciation for Carol Robbins, and in 2005 he published A Journey into Creative Music Therapy, Barcelona Publishers.