I am a certified music therapist and clinical and health psychologist, working as Senior Researcher at GAMUT – The Grieg Academy Music Therapy Research Centre, a twin centre regulated by an agreement of collaboration between the University of Bergen and NORCE.
My key qualifications are in research on the effectiveness and
applicability of music interventions in mental health, and on
determinants of mental health and well-being in children and adults.
I have expertise and experience in leading international research groups, and my work has been published in international journals within and beyond the music therapy field, including the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. I currently serve as Managing Editor of the Nordic Journal of Music Therapy.
Monika Geretsegger
Senior Researcher
moge@norceresearch.no
+47 56 10 72 30
+47 469 28 297
Nina Griegs gt. 4, 5015 Bergen, Norway
Division
Health & Social Sciences
Research themes
Children's Mental Health
Music Therapy
Health services
Research Groups
More information about Monika
Projects
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Academic articleDemographic and clinical profile of residents living with dementia and depressive symptoms in Australian private residential aged care: Data from the Music Interventions for Dementia and Depression in ELderly care (MIDDEL) cluster-randomised controlled trial– Australasian Journal on Ageing 2022
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Academic literature reviewMusic therapy for autistic people– Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2022
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Academic articleRhythmic Relating: Bidirectional Support for Social Timing in Autism Therapies– Frontiers in Psychology 2022
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Academic articleClinical effectiveness of music interventions for dementia and depression in elderly care (MIDDEL): Australian cohort of an international pragmatic cluster-randomised controlled trial– The Lancet Healthy Longevity 2022
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Conference lectureMusic Interventions for Dementia and Depression in Elderly care (MIDDEL): The Australian part of an international cluster randomised controlled trial– Alzheimer’s Association International Conference 2021
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Conference lectureEffectiveness of music therapy in autism– Music Care Conference - The Power of Music: Innovations in Care 2021
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Academic literature reviewEffectiveness of music therapy for autism spectrum disorder, dementia, depression, insomnia and schizophrenia: update of systematic reviews– European Journal of Public Health 2021
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Conference lectureThe voices of people with dementia and their carers: A strategy for public participation and involvement in a multinational psychosocial intervention trial– Second Krems Dementia Conference “Dealing with Dementia: Prevention, timely detection and awareness” – Coordinated efforts between East and West 2020
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Academic literature reviewThe Capability Approach in research about children and childhood: A scoping review.– Child Indicators Research 2020
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Academic articleDeveloping consensus description of group music therapy characteristics for persons with dementia– Nordic journal of music therapy 2020
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Conference lectureA scoping review of the Capability Approach: Application to the field of children’s mental health research– It Takes a Village 2019 2019
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Academic articleEnhancing the efficacy of integrative improvisational music therapy in the treatment of depression: Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial– Trials 2019
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Academic articleMusic Interventions for Dementia and Depression in ELderly care (MIDDEL): Protocol and statistical analysis plan for a multinational cluster-randomised trial– BMJ Open 2019
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Academic articleTreatment fidelity in a music therapy multi-site cluster randomized controlled trial for people living with dementia: The MIDDEL project intervention fidelity protocol– The Journal of music therapy 2019
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Academic articleMusic therapy and other music-based interventions in pediatric health care: An overview– Medicines 2019
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Non-fiction chapterPerspectives on research and clinical practice in music therapy for older people with depression– 2018
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Non-fiction chapterFor what it's worth...: Determining the value of music therapy - An example from Austria– 2017
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Conference lectureFacilitating moments of musical and emotional attunement in improvisational music therapy with children on the autism spectrum– 5th “Mozart & Science” International Conference on Music for Medicine and Therapy 2017
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Academic articleInternational multicentre randomised controlled trial of improvisational music therapy for children with autism spectrum disorder: TIME-A study– Health Technology Assessment 2017
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Academic articleTracing the temporal stability of autism spectrum diagnosis and severity as measured by the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule: A systematic review and meta-analysis– PLOS ONE 2017
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Academic articleEffects of improvisational music therapy vs enhanced standard care on symptom severity among children with autism spectrum disorder: The TIME-A randomized clinical trial– Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) 2017
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Academic literature reviewMusic therapy for people with schizophrenia and schizophrenia-like disorders– Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2017
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Conference lectureIs improvisational music therapy an effective intervention for children with autism spectrum disorder? Findings from the multi-site randomised controlled TIME-A trial– 4th Norwegian Music Therapy Conference 2016
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Academic articleFeasibility of a trial on improvisational music therapy for children with autism spectrum disorder– The Journal of music therapy 2016
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Conference lectureImprovisational music therapy and autism– Ringvorlesung Musiktherapie 2015
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Academic articleCommon characteristics of improvisational approaches in music therapy for children with autism spectrum disorder: Developing treatment guidelines– The Journal of music therapy 2015