AUGUST 13 th                       
                         

14:00- 18:00

Board meeting European Music Therapy Confederation (EMTC) (closed meeting)                
                         
AUGUST 14 th 

9:00-18:00

Board meeting meeting of the European Music Therapy Confederation (EMTC)  (closed meeting)
                         
18:00-21:00 General Assembly meeting of the European Music Therapy Confederation (EMTC)  (closed meeting)              
                         

Chair: Prof. Dr. Jos De Backer

                     
                         
AUGUST 15 th                       

 9:00-16:00

General Assembly meeting of the European Music Therapy Confederation (closed meeting)
 
 

Chair: Prof. Dr. Jos De Backer and Dr. Monika Noecker-Ribaupierre

 
 
 
14.00 Registration Desk opens for Congress Delegates                  
18:00 Diner                      
20:00 Opening of the Congress                    
          Gea van Straaten (Congress Comittee)  / (NVvMT)            
               Jos de Backer (President of the EMTC)                  
               Annnemiek Vink (Chair of the 7th European Music Therapy Congress/ Dutch Music Therapy Association)              
               Keynote Henk Smeijsters "Dialogues in Music Therapy"                  
          Musical Improvisation                    
              Closure and announcements
                     
Reseach                  
Clinical Practice                  
Music Therapy Theory                  
AUGUST 16 th                    
                         
Time Brabant hall Room 20 Room 18 Room 19 Room 21             Room 22 Room 23 Room 8 Room 51 Room 80 (workshops) Room 82(workshops)  Restaurant Exhition Hall Limburg/Meierij foyer
7:00                          
8:00                       Breakfast  
8:30                        
9:00 KEYNOTE LECTURES                                                                   
  Niek van Nieuwenhuijzen & Gaby Wijzenbeek (The Netherlands) Clashing Cultures            
10:00 Jaako Erkkillä (Finland) Thoughts about Music Therapy: Improvisation from an epistemological and paradigmatic point of view.       
11:00                         Coffee Break
11:30   CULTURE             

Ehud Bodner (Isreal) Song in Light of the terror Management Theory:Music Therapy under the Threat of Death

NEUROLOGY

Silja Straub &  Stefan Mainka (Germany) Thecatalogue of indications for music therapy in neurological rehabilitation

MUSIC THERAPY TRAINING                 

Esa Ala-Ruona (Finland) Sharing the Views - Meaning making and collaborative learning in clinical music therapy: multi-level training mode

IMPROVISATION          

Nuha Elsadig Ahmed & Hassan elmahi Hussein (Sudan) Singing together for save behavioral and practices in reproductive health

MUSIC THERAPY THEORY                    

Mieke Van Uytvanck (Belgium) Intuition and the concept of immediacy intuition

CHILDREN       

Jane Mayhew (UK) Single sessions with bereaved children: Are they useful?

AUTISM             

Peter Whelan UK) The Use of Music Therapy to support the transition to young adult life for the autistic adolescents

Symposium Music & Altered States 

                          

Jörg Fachner  (Germany)    Introduction to the symposium  (11:30-12:00) 

WORKSHOP                             Jelle van Buuren (The Netherlands) Dialogue through singing in music therapy session

WORKSHOP                      

Sanne Storm (Faroe Islands) Psychodynamic Voice Therapy - a music therapeutic approach  with psychiatric patients suffering from depression

 

STANDS (all day)       

 

 

CHOROI   

 

 

Time Domain Europe

 

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

 

12:15  

Ilse Wolfram (Germany) What helps in Music Therapy with Refugees

 

Gabriella Giordanella Perilli (Italy) Music Therapy in neurological rehabilitation

 

Peter Hoffman (Germany) Improvisation in music therapy training: Experiencing musical components in improvisation

 

Gro Trondalen (Norway) Improvisation - a multilayered phenomenon.

 

Kimmo Lehtonen (Finland) Is Music a Subject? Music in the symmetric and asymmetric psychic systems  

Emma Davies (UK) “It’s a Family Affair;” - Interactive Music Therapy with Children and their Families

 

Simona Ghezzi & Anna Boesso (Italy) The Language with Down Sindrome children : the origin of the word”

 

Lucanne Magill (Canada) Challenges of end-stage illnesses (12:00-12:30)

 

Allessandro Ricciarelli (USA) Meditation and guided Imagery with cancer patients (12:30-13:00)

 

 

   
                 

 

 

 

   
13:00                          
                        Lunch  
                         
14:00   ANALYZING MUSIC THERAPY SESSIONS

Avi Gilboa & Amit Klein (Israel) The MAP:A new software for describing, communicating, and analyzing music therapy sessions

DEMENTIA         

Hanne Mette Ridder (Denmark) Person centred music therapy and frontotemporal dementia. Designing a research protocol

CHILDREN             

Hanna Hakomäki (Finland) Storycomposing as a music therapy model

MUSIC THERAPY TRAINING               

Patricia Sabbatella & Graça Mota (Spain) A model for music therapy training in Spain and Portugal according to the European Higher Education System - Bologna Process

MUSIC THERAPY THEORY   

Almut Pioch (The Netherlands) Musictherapy and Schema-focused Therapy


 

PSYCHIATRY  

Hans Petter Solli (Norway) "Shut up and play!” Music Therapy with a man with schizophrenia – a resource-oriented perspective.

MUSIC IN THERAPY  

Angela Harrison (UK) Finding a voice - music as a catalyst for meaningful communication

Symposium Music & Altered States             

Estella Kempen (The Netherlands)  Researching sound induced altered states

(14:00-14:30)  

        

Wolfgang Schmid (Germany) Creative music therapy with multipe sclerosis patients 

14:30-15:00)

 

 

 

WORKSHOP 

Karin Schou (Den Mark) Guided Relaxation and Music - A Music Therapy Method for Improving Relaxation and Reducing Anxiety

       

WORKSHOP     Albert Berman (The Netherlands) I'm A Serious Case, Introduction to provocative music therapy  

POSTERS (all day)

Patxi del Campo San Vicente (Spain)  The dialogue of the impossible to find the possible improvisation

 

 

Alvaro Pérez Gallardo & Patricia L. Sabbatella (Spain)  Improvisational music therapy with an adolescent with Traumatic Brain Injury.

14:45  

Thomas Wosch & Tony Wigram(Germany & UK) Microanalysis in Music therapy

 

Monique van Bruggen-Rufi (The Netherlands) Individualized, culture-centred music therapy with elderly from the former Dutch Indies

Heike Raff-Lichtenberger (Germany) Building a dialogue - music therapy with children in a private practice

David Schwartz (Israel) The Music Therapist's music-world "Music Therapy Training, "music-world" 

 

Allesandra Padula (Italy) Popular music in music therapy: musical events and processes of communication

Charlotte Lindvang & Britta Frederiksen          (Denmark) The Need for Autonomy and the Nature of Doing, - about Men in Music Therapy

Wendy Ruck (UK) Does a Therapeutic Utopia Exist?

 

Helena Bogopolski (Israel) The effect of music on patients undergoing general anesthesia   (15:00-15:30)

     

Francesca Bresaola &  Giulia Stola (Italy) Musictherapy work with partial- and completely blind, and/or with pluri-handicaps

                 

 

     

Elena Zavarise & Elisabetta Verdolini (Italy) Musictherapy with patients in post-coma in the rehabilitation phase

15:30                         Coffee Break
16:00   ANALYZING MUSIC THERAPY SESSIONS

Katja Rixen (Belgium) Triangulation: Analysis and Meaning of Nordoff/Robbins Piano Improvisations in a Psychoanalytical Setting

ELDERLY         PRISONERS   

Matthew Huckel ( UK) 'Music Therapy with Elderly 'Lifer' Prisoners: Who wants to know?'

NEUROLOGY         

Mirdza Paipare (Latvia) Fostering speech motor ability after brain trauma

TINNITUS                       

Iris Valentin & Elke Willwoll (Germany) Evaluation Project: "Audio-communication" - a music therapeutic treatment for  Tinnitus

COUNSELING 

Rita Strand Frisk (Norway) Music therapy and counselling

THERAPEUTIC PROCESS  

Anke Coomans (Belgium) Change of therapist, change of therapy? Looking for a place and some space in a replacement

DEMENTIA                

Vannie & Jordan Winfield (Australia) Group music therapy program in a Dutch hostel in Melbourne Australia

Symposium Music & Altered States     

Stella Compton-Dickinson (UK) Cognitive analytic music therapy and the treatment of dissociation.   (16:00:16:30)

AUTISM     

Ferdinando Suvini (Italy)Music Therapy and autism. Musical form and structure in intersubjectivity relationships

VIDEO                                      Marjon Halmeyer - Roos (Curacao) Beyond the rhythm of the Tambu

 

 

Stichting Papageno - Ria Veldhuizen (The Netherlands) Moments of musical meeting

Alyne Mizutani (Italy) Songs in our life.

16:45                          
17:00                   MEETING MUSIC THERAPY NEUROLOGY NETWORK GROUP       
18:00                       Dinner  
18:30                        
19:00                        
19:30                          
20:00 CONCERT: Ferenc Hutÿra & Louis Ignatius Gall (The Netherlands)                 
20:30                          
21:00 SUNSHIELD BAND (The Netherlands)                     
21:30                          
                         
                         
AUGUST 17 th                       
                         
Time Brabant hall Room 20 Room 18 Room 19 Room 21             Room 22 Room 23 Room 8 Room 51 Room 80 (workshops) Room 82(workshops)  Restaurant Exhition Hall Limburg/Meierij foyer
7:00                          
8:00                       Breakfast  
8:30                        
9:00 KEYNOTE LECTURES                                                                  
  Madeleen de Bruijn (The Netherlands) Speech Music Therapy for Aphasia (SMTA)             
10:00 Karin Schumacher (Germany) About the Art to communicate without Dialogue              
11:00                         Coffee Break
11:30   ONCOLOGY           

Susan Hanser (USA) Music Therapy in Oncology:  Theory, Practice and Research

PSYCHIATRY         

Inge Nygaard Pedersen (Denmark) How do music therapists working in adult psychiatry cope with counter transference?

HANDICAP      

May Gaertner (France) Music Therapy with a teenager with severe and profound multiple disabilites

CHILDREN    

Tony Wigram (UK) Consistency through flexible procedures

TRAUMA      

Miriam Druks (Israel) MusicTherapy Group with Holocaust Survivors

ADOLESCENTS  
Sofie Vandereyken (Belgium) Diagnosis through Music. Music in diagnostic setting for adolescents

THERAPEUTIC PROCESS  

Suzanne Metzner (Germany) Participation, Mutuality, Resistance 

SYMPOSIUM Music & Altered States                             

Chava Sekeles (Israel) Shamanism: origins and therapeutic meaning           (11:30-12:00)

 

WORKSHOP 

Ulla Holck (Denmark) An Ethnographic Approach to Video Analysis

WORKSHOP   Karin Visscher & Maarten Haalboom (The Netherlands)  Inner Sound - sound and music therapy               

  STANDS (all day)

CHOROI                        

Stiggelbout                

Time Domain Europe

KlankWerkstatt Bernhard Deutz

12:15  

Guylaine Vaillancourt (Canada) Music therapy in oncology: a new project in Canada

 

Laurien Hakvoort (The Netherlands) Music therapy as assessment tool of Coping skills for forensic psychiatry 

 

Valgerdur Jónsdóttir (Iceland) Music-caring for mothers having infants with special-needs.

 

Frauke Schwaiblmair (Germany ) Infant research and Music Therapy - The Significance of Musical Characteristics in Early Mother-Child Interaction for Music Therapy

 

Diane Geffner (Israel) Dialogues in Music to deal with Trauma 

 

Maarit Havanto (Finland) “The Dying Dragon”  Psychodynamic music therapy in traumatized adolescents with depression

 

Carla Molenberghs & Lieselotte Ronse (Belgium)Lost words sounding in music

 

Gerhard Tucek  (Austria) Trance and aspects of regulatory medicine     (12:00-12:30)      

 

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

  

                  Sumathy Sundar, (India) Nadopasana (Dedication to music): A Yoga for inducing altered states of consciousness to enhance healing (12:30-13:00)

 

       
13:00                          
                        Lunch  
                         
14:00   EVIDENCED BASED MEDICINE   

Barbara L. Wheeler & Barbara Else (USA) Relativism and Perspective in Evidence-Based Reviews

CLINICAL PRACTICE

Nechama Yehuda (Israel) "I am not at home with my client's music...I felt guilty about disliking it "

CHILDREN                  

Tohshin Go, Eiko Shimokawa &Yukuo Konishi (Japan) Music therapy based on baby science and infant studies

 

CLINICAL PRACTICE Melanie Voigt (Germany)Quality Management: Friend or Foe of Music Therapy in Clinical Practice?

TIME & PULSE 

Niels Hamel (Germany) Listening to Time: Is Temporality effective in Music Therapy?

RECEPTIVE MUSIC THERAPY

Meertine Laansma (The Netherlands) Dialogues in music listening : A cognitive informed approach to receptive musictherapy in the treatment of depression

ONCOLOGY                 

Kui-Beda Vyacheslav (Russia)  Music Therapy of Cancer Patients: Technology for creating MT compositions about the battle against disease

SYMPOSIUM Music & Altered States                

Irene Dijkstra & Laurien Hakvoort (The Netherlands) Music Therapy and addiction: can research support its effects? (14:00-14:30)

WORKSHOP

Han Kurstjens (The Netherlands) Observation of the musical form components in musictherapy

WORKSHOP           Mary Elinor Boyle & Eleanor Dennis (USA) Assessment Techniques for Rhythmic Improv:  An In Vivo Experience

 

POSTERS (all day)   Sabbatella &  Juan de Dios García Hernández (Spain) My music is for you: Using music therapy to develop interactive skills with autistic children (



Annika Lejonclou (Sweden) Being smashed apart


 

14:45  

Christian Gold (Norway) Effects of music therapy for people with psychoses and other psychiatric disorders: Systematic review and meta-analysis

Henry Dunn (UK) Parallel Journeys: how  a music therapist can travel with his client

 

Dikla Kerem (Israel) Effect of Music Therapy on Communicative Interactions among deaf Toddlers following Cochlear Implantation

Helen Loth & Eleanor Richards (UK) Is music therapy sometimes not enough?  A preliminary study of music therapists who pursue further training in verbal therapies.

 

Daisy Varewyck (Belgium) Pulse: About the first time of symbolization

 

Rudy Garred (Norway) The receptive modality of music as therapy: The Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music as a case in point.

Inge Bracke (Belgium) Just  in heaven. Music therapy in paediatric oncology

 

Tsvia Horesh (Israel) "Music is My Life" - The many Meanings of Music in the Lives of Substance Abusers Undergoing Treatment (14:30-15:00)      

Anita Forsblom & Sari Laitinen (Finland) listening to music as a rehabilitating tool with early stage stroke patients

 

                  Marku Punkanen (Finland) Trauma related addiction in music therapy (15:00-15:30)      

Mayte Aguilar Rodriguez, Victoria Oliva Reina & Patricia Sabbatella (Spain) Educational Music Therapy in Cerebral Palsy

15:30                         Coffee Break
16:00   CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS    

Chava Wiess (Israel) A bird without a home "Music Therapy with Children and Adolescents Who Lost Their Homes Due to the Disengagement in Israel"

CLINICAL PRACTICE Charlotte Christiaens (Belgium) Repeat - reprise - remembrance; mentalisation in music-therapy

 

MUSIC THERAPY THEORY

Elzbieta Masiak  (Poland)  Creative  Music Therapy and Logotherapy:  Long–Lost Relatives?

CULTURE  

Claudio Cominardi (Italy) Creative music and sensorial languages for interculture

FUNCTION OF SOUND AND MUSIC   

Michalis Tobler (Greece) From Chaos to Rigidity

CLINICAL PRACTICE

Charlotte Dammeyer Fønsbo, Helle Nystrup Lund (Denmark) Is Tango as therapeutic as Mambo

GUITAR     

Claire Hogan (Australia) The benefits of guitar Tuition for Mental Health Consumers

SYMPOSIUM Music & Altered States              

 

Marijke Schotmans (Belgium) Music therapy with youngster addicted to drugs, alcohol or medication. (16:00-16:30)

 

Plenary discussion (16:30-17:00)

WORKSHOP   

Heidi Ahonen-Eerikäinen (Canada) Using Group-Analytic Supervision Approach when Supervising Music Therapists

WORKSHOP  

Els Denessen (The Netherlands) The New Me

 

Margarida Rocha (Portugal) As a "good object"

16:45                          
17:00                        

Bolette Beck (Denmark) The impact of Guided Music and Imagery on coping, life quality and hope in traumatized refugees

17:30                          
18:00                       Dinner  
18:30                        
19:00                        
19:30                          
20:00 CONCERT: Niels Hamel & Monica von Bülow (Germany)                   
20:30                          
21:00 CONCERT: RAGNAROCK (Norway)                    
21:30                          
                         
                         
AUGUST 18 th                       
                         
Time Brabant hall Room 20 Room 18 Room 19 Room 21             Room 22 Room 23 Room 8 Room 51 Room 80 (workshops) Room 82(workshops)  Restaurant Exhition Hall Limburg/Meierij foyer
7:00                          
8:00                       Breakfast  
8:30                        
9:00 KEYNOTE LECTURES                                                                    
  Simona Katz & Adriano Primadei (Italy) Tarantism in a music therapy perspective            
10:00 Paul Robertson (UK) Music and Medicine - a matter of Interpretation?                
11:00                         Coffee Break
11:30   EMOTIONS  

Kari Kallinen (Finland) The Meaning of Music as Interactive Processes Between the Individual, the Music and the Context: Some Multimethodological Research Findings and Implications for Music Therapy

CHILDREN           

Monika Geretsegger (Austria) My baby's safe and sound - Music therapy within an early intervention programme for mothers suffering from psychiatric disorders, and their infants

SCHIZOPHRENIA  

Tom Næss and Even Ruud (Norway) Audible Gestures – Music Therapy With An Institutionalized Woman Diagnozed with Paranoid Schizophrenia

MUSIC THERAPY THEORY    

Dale B. Taylor (USA) Biomedical Music Therapy Origins, Research and Applications Theory, Biomedical, Research, Applications

CHILDREN         

Cochavit Elefant (Norway) Intergroup relations in childeren

CLINICAL PRACTICE Marinella Maggiori& CristinaRozzi (Italy) Communication and Dialogue through MT involving a client suffering from epileptic Encephalopathy with serious Visual Impairment

NEUROLOGY            

Simon Gilbertson (Germany) Road traffic incidents and their consequences: Research on music therapy with people who have experienced traumatic brain injury

  

DIALOGUE                       Karin Boeseler & Andreas Zieger (Germany) Need-oriented, emotional-communicative dialogue in music therapy with coma/apallic syndrome patients in neurological early rehabilitation 

WORKSHOP                Silka Uhlig & Kate Geller (The Netherlands/ USA) Singing: A Personal and Professional Need WORKSHOP  Jaap Orth (The Netherlands) From silence to (e)motion   STANDS (all day)

CHOROI                                           * Kek Music                            

Time Domain Europe

KlankWerkstatt Bernhard Deutz

 

12:15  

Randi Rolvsjord (Norway) The urge to “go native”: A discussion of ethical and epistemological questions related to the research into own clinical practice.

 

Petra Kern (USA) Exploring the World Through Music: Serving Infants and Toddlers With Visual Impairments

 

Enrico Ceccato (Italy) The STAM method in the rehabilitation of attention and memory in schizophrenic patients: a further single-blind, controlled, randomized study

Kenneth Aigen (USA) Schema Theory: An Integration of Music-Based and Psychologically-Based Theory in Music Therapy schema theory, metaphor, general theory

 

Gitta Strehlow (Germany) The use of music therapy in treating sexually abused children

 

Lucia Luciana Mosca (Italy) "The terrible hand" Music therapy for five women with Multiple Sclerosis.

 

Michael Migliore (USA) Using Music Therapy to facilitate speech in head-injured adults

Tessa Watson (UK) Together we are stronger? Collaborative working in Music Therapy

     

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

  

                           
13:00                          
                        Lunch  
                         
14:00   SINGING IN MUSIC THERAPY  

Felicity Baker, Tony Wigram & Katrina McFerran (Australia/UK)The power of songwriting in therapy: An international on-line survey of therapeutic songwriting practices.

PALLIATIVE CARE 

Russell Hilliard (USA) Communicating through music in end-of-life care

  

         

MUSIC THERAPY INTERVENTIONS

Barbara Krantz (The Netherlands) Interventions of Creative Arts Therapists

IMPROVISATION             

John Strange (United Kingdom) The present moment in clinical improvisation


                              

CHILDREN 

Päivi Saukko (Finland) The Goals of Music Therapy in the Rehabilitation Process of a Child

NEUROLOGY  

Nicoletta Bettini (Italy) Music therapy in Parkinson Disease

MUSICKING/NEUROLOGY 

Sunelle Fouche & Kerryn Torrance (South Africa) Musicking towards social health

CHILDREN/RESEARCH

Dorothea Pienaar (New Zealand) It is all in a note

WORKSHOP           Tom Naess (Norway) Building a pop/rock-band for people with learning disabilities and special needs EAMTS STUDENT SYMPOSIUM   -Chris Lykkegaard (Denmark)“Body music”

Sabine van Zanten (The Netherlands) Emotional expressions - Interventions used by music therapists to release emotions

 

POSTERS (all day)           Ellen Bowman (USA)Passing Songs: Music in Hospice Settings

 

Nobuko Saji (Japan) Music therapy focusing on Subjective Tempo Through 2-Year Musical Responses of an Old Adult with Dementia

                   

14:45  

Jung Yoon SHIN (Australia) I sing what I can't say. - Singing as a therapeutic method in paediatric Music Therapy

 

Cheryl Dileo (USA) Final Moments: The Use of Songs in Relationship Completion at the End of Life

 

Kathinka Poismans (the Netherlands) Sound colour in music therapy, qualitative & quantitativeresearch.

 

Marijke Rutten Saris & Wijntje van den Ende (The Netherlands) Tracing the significance of Emerging Body Language (EBL) in clinical improvisations with mixed use of both music and art.

Aldona Vilkeliene (Lithuania) Music therapy in a Family: National Identity Approach.

Roberto Ghiozzi (Italy) Music therapy for coma patients and post coma patients

 

Wendy Magee (UK) Music therapy to improve  communication and well-being in clients with dysarthria

Brynhulf Stige (Norway) The Problem of Standards for Qualitative Research in Music Therapy. 

 

Iain Spink (UK)“One Foot In The Groove”: Music Therapy with older people with dementia, a students perspective -

 

Eszter Forgács (UK) "Mum and Dad can listen today"  Musical dialogues between children with special needs and their parents.

 

Mireia Serra (Spain) Guided imagination and music in cancer  

          

Isabel Luñansky (Spain) Effects of music therapy approach in Alzheimer

                         

Pablo Pérez Vich (Spain) Music therapy in a therapeutic community for addicts rehabilitation: the usefulness of music like a symbol to build the relationship bond

15:30                        

Coffee Break

16:00   MUSIC THERAPY THEORY   

Ioannis Makris,  Dimitra Mcr (Greece) Byzantine Music & Music Therapy

 

GUIDED IMAGINATION

Ranka Radulovic (Serbia) Analytical listening of music  - method of guided fantasies

MENTAL HEALTH

Julie  De Simone &   Raymond MacDonald (UK) A qualitative IPA study of a music programme for individuals with a mental health disability

IMRPOVISATION Karette Stensæth (Norway)  Music Therapy Improvisation: a Carnival stage? 

CHILDREN  

Giulia Cremaschi Trovesi (Italy) The Voice in deaf children

ADOLESCENTS Marta  Braga de Matos & Margarida Moreira da Rocha (Portugal) Through music and fantasy to a symbolisation process

SCHOOLS              Paola Esperson Pecoraro & Lucia Cajola (Italy) Music Therapy for Integration in primary schools and ICF assessment

PALLIATIVE CARE

Baroni Mariagrazia (Italy) Communication when words fail. Musical improvisation in palliative care

 

VIDEO                                      Marjon Halmeyer - Roos (Curacao) Beyond the rhythm of the Tambu

Gianni Silvano (Belgium) Too tough for music? - a research on music therapy with adolescents with cystic fibrosis

 

 

Marta González-Álvarez, Vicente Alonso, Ángeles Bermell, Isabel González-Álvarez &  Marival Bermejo (Spain) Influence of the music over the tumor cells growing

16:45                          
17:00                      
17:30                          
18:00                       Dinner  
18:30                        
19:00                        
19:30                          
20:00                          
20:30                          
21:00 THEATER: RADIO PINGPONG (Belgium)                   
22:00                          
                       
                         
                   
                         
AUGUST 19 th 
  Breakfast and closure