Posters
 

More than 15 presenters followed the invitation to inform about their practical work as music therapists or to give insight into recent or ongoing research studies.

You are very welcome to take a look at the broad range of topics on site at our poster walls (Aula) or online here. You will find an overview first (please press the slide-button).

If you scroll down, you can view each poster individually. If you click on the poster, it will zoom in automatically. Some posters are also available for download in pdf format.

Christian Berger & Monika Marik (AUT)
A Case Report: Music Therapy for a Child with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Concomitant Parental Counselling. Reflections and Insights.

Christian Berger is a licensed music therapist and psychotherapist. He is trained in behavioural psychotherapy and is currently specialising in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy. Christian has several years’ experience of working particularly with children & adolescents with neurodevelopmental disorders and adults with a range of psychological difficulties. He currently works in a paediatric outpatient clinic and in private practice in Vienna.
Monika Marik is a licensed music therapist, clinical psychologist, and lecturer at the Department of Music Therapy at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. She is currently working within a multidisciplinary team in a paediatric outpatient clinic and finishing her PhD project focusing on emotion regulation, assessment, and music therapy.
They are both providing individual therapy, group therapy, and parent-child-settings for children and young people with developmental disorders and behavioural difficulties, as well as parental counselling for their families from very diverse backgrounds.

(Poster presented only on site!)

Helene Bichlmann (AUT)
Family constellations with musical instruments

Helene Bichlmann was born in 1993 in Austria. She finished her music therapy studies in 2019 at the university of music and performing arts vienna. In her final thesis she explored possible tendencies in family constellations with musical instruments. Therefore she experienced music therapeutic family settings with 8 families. Since then, she has primary been working as a music therapist in different hospitals in Austria with either adults, adolescent or children in psychiatric context. 

Chiara Maria Bieker & Antonella Grusovin (IT)
“Memorabili Armonie”. Music therapy at the museum for people with dementia and their caregivers.

Chiara Maria Bieker: Music therapist, neurologic music therapist, founding member and president of APS Aulòs in Trieste (Italy), where she manages working groups and coordinates training and research activities. She is a teacher at several music therapy schools (fields of interest: voice and vocality in music therapy; music therapy in neurological rehabilitation, music therapy assessment) and leads the scientific board of the Specialisation Course in Vocal Music Therapy (CSMV – Trento, Italy). Her work focuses particularly on palliative care and neurological rehabilitation. Furthermore, she supports families along the entire life cycle – from pregnancy and early childhood to end of life – paying particular attention to the role of caregivers and their needs.

Antonella Grusovin: Musician, music therapist, trainer, expert in vocal music therapy. She is lecturer at the two-year music therapy specialisation course of the “A. Casella” Conservatory (L'Aquila, Italy) and teaches at numerous music therapy training schools. She has participated as a speaker in many national and international conferences and is Director of the Specialisation Course in Vocal Music Therapy (CSMV) in Trento, Italy. She works mainly with neurodegenerative diseases, blindness, motor and intellectual disabilities and is currently employed at the Regional Institute for Blind People “Rittmeyer” (Trieste). She is responsible for the vocal music therapy area of the association Aulòs in Trieste and is a member of the Italian Association of Music Therapy Professionals AIM.

Constance Boyde, Bettina Berger, Lutz Neugebauer  & Christina Hunger-Schoppe (DE)
Interaction-focused music therapy with cancer affected children and their significant others: A randomized controlled feasibility study with subsequent intervention (INMUT)

Constance Boyde: Diploma in Piano and Instrumental Pedagogy, Musikhochschule Dresden; Diploma in Music Therapy, University Witten/Herdecke; Music Therapist at Gemeinschaftskrankenhaus Herdecke (Pediatric Oncology/Hematology and Neuropediatrics, NICU, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry); PhD Student and Researcher, University Witten/Herdecke; APCI Certification; Constance.Boyde@uni-wh.de

Tetiana Chernous (UKR)
Brain-up! Music more than language

Tetiana Chernous (Ukraine) – Music Therapist, Dance-Movement therapist, Music Teacher, Orff-teacher. Founding member of the Association of Music Therapists of Ukraine (AMU), member of the Ukrainian Union of Psychotherapists, member of the Board and Vice-President of the Orff-Schulwerk Association of Ukraine (OSAU).
Since 2006 works in the art-music Inclusive Center for primary school children (Ukraine, Rivne), taking part in many Ukrainian projects for families who have children with special needs (Rivne, Kyiv, Uzhhorod, Zhytomyr, etc.). Since 2013, lectured on the Orff Approach field on educational projects relayed to musical pedagogy and therapy in Ukraine and abroad. Art-educator of the National University Ostroh Academy", a leader of the art-psychological project for people with disabilities (Rivne).
She has developed and taught courses including "Orff pedagogy", "Orff Approach in Music Therapy", "Orff Approach in Inclusive education", "Orff pedagogy for people with disabilities" and "Orff pedagogy for primary school teachers".

Vivienne Colegrove (AUS)
Tuning Relationships with Music: An Implemention Study

Dr Vivienne Colegrove is a couple, family and music therapist with many years’ experience of working with families and couples impacted by trauma, where this is negatively impacting their ability to achieve the attuned, joyous relationships they long for. Vivienne currently works in private practice in regional Victoria, Australia, offering therapy, clinical supervision and training. As an honarary staff member with the Mindful Centre for Training and Research in Developmental Health (University of Melbourne) she is also conducting further research related to Tuning Relationships with Music, a therapy she developed and tested for her PhD.

Stefanie Hörmanseder (AUT)
Back into life after backing up survival: Family-centered music therapy in pediatric oncological aftercare

Stefanie Hoermanseder, a music therapist and artist, living in Vienna. In October 2021 she finished her music therapy studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts. Her thesis is the basis of this presented poster, which was developed in the context of a practice research project in cooperation with the WZMF and the St. Anna children’s hospital Vienna. Music therapy and families - this topic accompanies her not only in the course of this research project, but also in her training she was able to gain experience in this area. Within two 4-month lasting internships with a pediatric focus she got first insights into this field. Since January 2022 she has been working as a music therapist in an outpatient clinic for children and adolescents of the VKKJ in Eggenburg, where one of her intentions is to involve families in the music therapeutic setting.

Sara Knapik-Szweda (POL) & Grace Thompson (AUS)
Meaningful long-term music therapy among children with ASD/ASC. A mother’s perspective. 

Sara Knapik-Szweda PhD, MT-C. is assistant of professor at the University of Silesia. Clinician and researcher. She works with premature infants in the NICU using Family-Centered Therapy approach (she was the first music therapist who was introduced music therapy for premature infants in Poland and polish hospital). She also works with children and teenagers with ASD/ASC and their families and adults with trauma and emotional disturbances in her own Music Therapy Center – MUZKA. She is member of Polish Music Therapy Association. She also co-operates with Music Therapy Department at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice.

Belinda Lydon (UK)
New Beginnings... A Music Therapy Group for Ukrainian Families in Wales

 Belinda Lydon is a Music Therapist and Trainee Parent-Infant Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist in the National Health Service (NHS) in Wales. She currently works for the Parent-Infant Mental Health Service in Aneurin Bevan University Health Board where she works with parents and infants from antenatal to 2 years old. The focus of the work is on strengthening the attachment between parents and their children and it is a preventative and early intervention service. Belinda also teaches on the MA Music Therapy programme at the University of South Wales and has a small private practice working with children with autism and developmental delay and their families and also offering supervision to other Music Therapists. Bio

Kirsty Ormston & Polly Livermore (UK)
Sound Origins: Valuing diversity on the Neonatal Unit

Kirsty Ormston has worked as a music therapist with families since for almost 10 years. With specialist knowledge in newborn behavioural observations and family integrated care, Kirsty specialises in working with neonates requiring complex care and their families on neonatal intensive care units. Kirsty developed the therapies service at Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospice and music therapy services on Great Ormond Street, University College London and Barnet Neonatal units supporting families from birth to end of life and post death. 

Eva Phan Quoc (AUT)
Attachment-based aspects of MusikSpielTherapie [MusicPlayTherapy] A music therapy approach for young children (0–4 years) and their caregivers viewed from an attachment theory perspective

Eva Phan Quoc is a certified music therapist, senior scientist and lecturer at the Music Therapy Research Centre Vienna (WZMF) and the Department of Music Therapy at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna. Her main clinical and research areas are family settings and attachment-based music therapy in early childhood.

Gabriella Putz (AUT)
Better in tune with myself, my body and my baby: Music therapy to promote prenatal attachment between mother and child

Celia Redondo, Pamela Heaton, Claire Flower & Juliet Wood (UK)
Online Music Therapy during Covid-19 Lockdown: parents’s perspectives

Celia Redondo is a PhD student at Goldsmiths University and a music teacher at a primary school in London. Before embarking on her doctoral studies, she worked as a teacher assistant for a special needs school, specialising in music. Her main research focus is on developing musical interventions for children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder. She is currently delivering music sessions for adolescents with ASD to improve emotion recognition using music. She has also worked with the Music Therapy Department at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, exploring the parent’s experiences with online music therapy during the lockdown. She has already published a scientific paper regarding her music interventions for adolescents with ASD.

Joanna Turner (UK)
Selective Mutism: Does music therapy hold the words? A case study exploring music therapy with a family supporting a child with selective mutism. 

Joanna Turner: HCPC registered music therapy. Ive been working as a music therapist for 12 years, mostly in schools with children with mental health illness, learning disabilities, trauma and physical limitations. I run a peer supervision group for music therapists who work in the field of selective mutism and have given several talks in the area as well as providing a cpd accredited course on the subject for families and professionals. Through my work with children with selective mutism, and my own daughter with this condition, I absolutely see the power off family participation in therapy. Involving the family can alleviate anxiety and fear, provide stability and security and also give techniques that can be used to support the child in the wider community.

Juliet Wood (UK)
Music therapy with autistic girls; collaboration with families to develop understanding of the needs of preschool autistic girls and how music therapy can support development

Juliet Wood is the Clinical Lead for Music Therapy at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in the UK. She has worked with children and families in this National Health Service child development setting for more than ten years, supporting families with children who have complex medical and neurodevelopmental conditions. Juliet also works in a range of community and educational settings where listening to, collaborating with and working alongside families is a central thread through her work.

Juan Pedro Zambonini, Amy Troyano, Kelly Crescenzo & Warren Frankenberger (USA)
The Effects of Music Therapy on Stress in Pediatric Patients Experiencing Psychiatric Emergencies

This team includes two music therapists, a nursing safety quality specialist, and a nurse scientist working in the emergency department of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. They provide services to children and their families from birth to 18 years of age, particularly adolescents who are experiencing psychiatric emergencies in the Emergency Department Extended Care Unit (EDECU).