Thanks to Scandinavia - Creating a Symphony of Global Music Therapy

Authors

  • Britta Vinkler Frederiksen
  • Sunniva Ulstein Kayser

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15845/voices.v12i1.635

Keywords:

thanks to scandinavia, environmental music therapy, music and medicine

Abstract

In this essay we will describe our visit at Louis and Lucille Armstrong Centre for music and music therapy at Beth Israel Medical Centre in New York. We were selected as the 2011 Thanks to the Scandinavians scholars. We will describe the music therapy methods in medicine at different units at the medical centre. We will describe our experiences of the music therapist´s work and the special challenges they meet when working in medicine. Further more we will discuss our experiences from a Scandinavian perspective.

Author Biographies

Britta Vinkler Frederiksen

Britta Frederiksen is Candidate in Music therapy from Aalborg University 1997 and a Registred Nurse from 1990.She has been working 20 years as a music therapist mostly with psychiatric patients. The last five years she I has been working in a highlysecured hospital for psychiatric forensic patients. Besides that she has experience working with handicapped and autistic children as well as adult.In 2006 she started a private Music therapy clinic in Copenhagen together with 3 music terapists.She started a Phd study at the 1st of October 2011, with the topic “Music therapy with forensic schizophrenic patients – establishing a therapeuticrelationship”

Sunniva Ulstein Kayser

Sunniva Ulstein Kayser is a recently graduated Music Therapist from the master-study of Music Therapy at the University of Bergen.During her studies, she has worked with several COPD-clients at the Bergen Red Cross Nursing Home. The empirical experiences guided the way for her Master Thesis wherein she explored together with an interdisciplinary focus group wherein a user-representative was present, how Music Therapy could take part in a holistic COPD-rehabilitation. This is a new area of Music Therapy in Norway, both in relation to clinical practice and research.Sunniva Ulstein Kayser has since August 2011 been employed at the Scandinavian medical company Aleris Care to develop a music therapy offer for people with Dementia at Aleris Care Søreide Nursing Home in Bergen.

Downloads

Published

2012-02-26

How to Cite

Frederiksen, B. V., & Kayser, S. U. (2012). Thanks to Scandinavia - Creating a Symphony of Global Music Therapy. Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.15845/voices.v12i1.635

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 1 (2012)

Section

Original Voices

License

Articles published prior to 2019 are subject to the following license, see: https://voices.no/index.php/voices/copyright