SPOTLIGHT SPEAKERS
Jan Van Camp
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Professor LUCA School of Arts, Belgium School of Psychoanalysis
Music therapy as psychotherapy
Karette Stensæth
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Professor and director of Centre for Research in Music and Health (CREMAH) at the Norwegian Academy of Music, Oslo, Norway
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The music therapist is learning and developing too! Responsiveness, a premise in the improvisation between a therapist and child with intellectual disability
Viggo Krüger
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Associate professor and research leader of the Grieg Academy Music Therapy Centre (GAMUT), University of Bergen and NORCE Norwegian Research Centre, Bergen, Norway
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Community music therapy as treatment, prevention and creating connections, finding the balance through improvisation.
Stine Lindahl Jacobsen
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Associate professor and Head of Art, Aesthetic & Health, Department of Communication and Psychology, Aalborg University, Denmark
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Music improvisation can be key in understanding caregiver & child interaction across professions within social work.
Jos De Backer
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Professor and head of BA and MA music therapy of LUCA School of Arts; Medical faculty KU Leuven; UPC KU Leuven Belgium; Chulalongkorn University Bangkok, Thailand
Playfulness and creativity in music therapy
Helen Shoemark
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Professor of music therapy, Temple University, Philadelphia, US
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Centering the expressed musicality of medically complex newborn infants.
Jorg Fachner
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Cambridge Institute for Music Therapy Research
Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK
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Moments of interest, multi-modal and social neuroscience approaches to improvisation and creative processes in music therapy.
Felicity Baker
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Associate dean of research, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, University of Melbourne, Australia
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Improvised Dementia Care: Music Attuned Technology Care via eHealth (MATCH)
Jaakko Erkkilä
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Professor at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Head of Music Therapy Studies at the Eino Roiha Foundation, Jyväskylä, Finland
Examining computational improvisation analysis perspectives from both research and clinical practice viewpoints