Browsing Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design by Document Types "Peer reviewed"
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50 Billion Micrograms. In Search of the Aftermath of an Event
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This exposition provides an example of how art can offer an alternative way of understanding the past through my work “50 Billion Micrograms”. The project explored a forgotten media event from 1979, in which a gigantic ... -
Battling illness with wellness: a qualitative case study of a young rapper’s experiences with music therapy
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-05-01)Mental health difficulties are connected with major interpersonal and social challenges. Recent qualitative research indicates that music therapy can facilitate many of the core elements found to promote social recovery ... -
Becoming a Reflexive Practitioner: Exploring Music Therapy Students´ Learning Experiences with Participatory Role-Play in a Norwegian Context
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The objective of this qualitative study was to explore music therapy students' learning experiences of participatory role-play in the context of the integrated music therapy master´s program at the University of Bergen in ... -
Being a person who plays in a band rather than being a person with a mental illness playing in a band: A qualitative study of stigma in the context of music therapy in mental health aftercare
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Introduction The study explores the theme “stigma” and how it was experienced by participants in MOT82, a music therapy project in the field of mental health aftercare in Norway. The theme is explored through the research ... -
Betydningsfull gjennom musikk: En samfunnspsykologisk studie av musikkterapiens ringvirkninger i barnehagen
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Aims and background: To explore music therapy as special education at preschool level. The research has been carried out in a context where the relevance of music therapy is understood in light of children’s rights to ... -
Characteristics of music therapy with beneficial impacts on agitation in dementia
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Several reviews in recent years have reported evidence of the effect of music on the serious problem of agitation in dementia. Some reviews draw different conclusions, however, which actualizes the need for studies that ... -
Community Music Therapy in the United States: A Thematic Analysis
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Community Music Therapy (CoMT) practices are continuing to develop within the international music therapy community. However, the development and implementation of music therapy through a CoMT lens in the United States has ... -
Composition in Essay Form. In Memory of Morten Eide Pedersen.
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)This essay is written in memory of Morten Eide Pedersen, my former teacher in composition, who passed away unexpectedly in October 2014. The text is divided into the following parts: “Against Tedious Academic Writing”, ... -
Concepts of context in music therapy
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)In contemporary music therapy as well as in related interdisciplinary fields, the importance of context in relation to theory, research, and practice has been emphasized. However, the word context seems to be used in several ... -
Designing creative inter-disciplinary science and art interventions in schools: The case of Write a Science Opera (WASO)
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-09-08)The goal of this qualitative study is to provide theoretical knowledge and design principles for a creative educational environment characterized by simultaneous study and exploration of science or math, and the arts: Write ... -
Do we understand children’s restlessness? Constructing ecologically valid understandings through reflexive cooperation
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-12-21)Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is the most widely used children’s mental health diagnosis today, but the validity of the diagnosis is controversial, for instance, because it might conceal relational and ... -
The Eclipse Effects of Stardom: Edvard Grieg as a Challenge to National Musicology
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Taking Norwegian musicology as a case study, this article explores scholarly forgetting at the intersection between academic music historiography and public music history. More specifically, it takes the national historiography ... -
The effect of improvisational music therapy on the treatment of depression: protocol for a randomised controlled trial
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2008-06-28)Background: Music therapy is frequently offered to individuals suffering from depression. Despite the lack of research into the effects of music therapy on this population, anecdotal evidence suggests that the results are ... -
Effect of Music Therapy on Parent-Infant Bonding Among Infants Born Preterm: A Randomized Clinical Trial
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Importance Parent-infant bonding contributes to long-term infant health but may be disrupted by preterm birth. Objective To determine if parent-led, infant-directed singing, supported by a music therapist and initiated in ... -
The Effectiveness of the Anteroom (Vestibule) Area on Hospital Infection Control and Health Staff Safety: A Systematic Review
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022-04-26)The emergence of SARS-CoV2 in 2019 showed again that the world's healthcare system is not fully equipped and well-designed for preventing the transmission of nosocomial respiratory infections. One of the great tools for ... -
Enactivist music therapy: Toward theoretical innovation and integration
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Introduction: Music therapy research has traditionally been somewhat fragmented into different research traditions. This paper argues that the burgeoning field of enactivism could provide important theoretical integration ... -
Et spørsmål om affekt: abduksjon som tilnærmingsmåte til «ny» empirisk forskning i kunstfagdidaktikk
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Med utgangspunkt i et overraskende spørsmål fra elever i møte med en kunstnerisk praksis, drøfter artikkelen hvordan en forstyrrelse kan kaste nytt lys på hva abduksjon som metode innebærer som tilnærmingsmåte til «ny» ... -
Experiences of Becoming Emotionally Dysregulated. A Qualitative Study of Staff in Youth Residential Care
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Trauma informed care (TIC) emphasizes the importance of professionals maintaining an emotionally regulated state. We interviewed eight staff members in a residential care unit for children and adolescents where TIC had ... -
Exploring the Client-Therapist Relationship in Music Therapy: A Qualitative Study in Adult Mental Healthcare
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Introduction: Most of the existing literature on the therapeutic relationship in music therapy rests on the researcher’s point of view. Hence, there is a limited amount of research that focuses on what creates a helpful ... -
Exploring the potential for music therapy to support 21st Century education goals: interviews with six Norwegian teachers
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)School engagement is a global crisis predicted to intensify in the context of COVID-19. As a consequence, education agendas have increasingly adopted whole-child and inclusive approaches, leading to new mandates and ...