Karette Stensæth

• PhD of music therapy
• Professor (Associate) at Norwegian Academy of Music

Rettelse til: Musikkterapi 2022 / Tidsskriftet Musikkterapi 2024, https://doi.org/10.69625/318192.HBVZ3091

Background This study was initiated and co-designed by a Participant and Public Involvement (PPI) group attached to HOMESIDE, a randomized controlled trial that investigated music and reading interventions for people living with dementia and their family caregivers across five countries: Australia, Germany, Norway, Poland, and the UK. The aim was t...

The behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) can be challenging for family caregivers to cope with, leading to distress and fatigue. It is therefore important to offer effective strategies to reduce the impact of BPSD. The HOMESIDE randomized controlled trial (RCT) was testing purposefully developed interventions to improve the qual...

Tidligere og pågående studier med personer med demens der sang og musikk inngår antar effekt og positive tendenser på symptomer og livskvalitet hos personer med demens. Behovet for dokumentasjon er fortsatt til stede. Denne studien er en pilot og undersøker korsang med personer med demens, gjennomført med tolv deltakere over en periode på åtte uker...

Background Music interventions provided by qualified therapists within residential aged care are effective at attenuating behavioural and psychological symptoms (BPSD) of people with dementia (PwD). The impact of music interventions on dementia symptom management when provided by family caregivers is unclear. Methods We implemented a community-bas...

An increasing number of people with dementia receive informal care from family members to help them remain living in the community. Music therapy is particularly beneficial for supporting the wellbeing of people living with dementia. However, little is known about how music therapy might support people with dementia and their family care partners a...

Background Most people with dementia live in the community, not in residential care. Therefore, quality informal care for them is critical for managing behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD). Music therapy has been shown to reduce BPSD. However, no randomised controlled trial has examined the effects of music interventions delive...

Background: While studies have identified strategies that are useful for recruiting people living with dementia, none have focused on psychosocial interventions involving arts therapies, or have examined the profiles of older people living in the community who consent or decline participation, particularly during a global pandemic. We aimed to ide...

Background: The number of people living with dementia (PwD) worldwide is expected to double every 20 years. Many continue living at home, receiving support from family caregivers who may experience significant stress, simultaneously to that of the PwD. Meaningful and effective home-based interventions to support PwD and their caregivers are needed....

Aim The aim of this systematic review is to identify factors that influence relationship quality in couples living with dementia. Previous research has shown how maintaining a positive spousal relationship quality is important for quality of life and coping for both the caregiver and the person with dementia. Knowledge of influential factors could...

Background: There is a global need for interventions that support the wellbeing of people living with dementia and their family care partners. Studies show that shared musical activities may achieve this. Our systematic review aimed to synthesise existing research exploring dyads' experiences of shared musical activities across a range of contexts...

Qualitative systematic reviews, or qualitative evidence syntheses (QES), are increasingly used in health settings to guide the development of practice and policy. Thematic synthesis is one of the most well-developed approaches used for QES, however there are limited worked examples describing how to apply the steps of analysis in the literature. Th...

Background Pharmacological interventions to address behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) can have undesirable side effects, therefore non‐pharmacological approaches to managing symptoms may be preferable. Past studies show that music therapy can reduce BPSD, and other studies have explored how formal caregivers use music in the...

Positive effects of music therapy for people with dementia and their family carers are reported in a growing number of studies. However, small sample sizes or low recruitment rates often limit the success of these research studies. More adequately powered evidence-based studies are needed to impact policy and funding in dementia care. This systemat...

Human-computer interaction researchers have explored how to design technologies to support people with dementia (PwD) and their caregivers, but limited attention has been given to how to facilitate music therapy in dementia care. The use of music to help manage the symptoms of dementia is often guided by a music therapist who adapts the interventio...

Purpose: Interest in the health relevance of music has been growing rapidly, yet few studies have addressed the protective role of music for music professionals themselves. In the current study, we investigated music professionals’ (music teachers, music therapists, musicians and academics) health, particularly their uses of music as a resource for...

As we improvise in music and become increasingly engrossed in the activity, we are intuitively engaged in a playful negotiation of various aesthetic possibilities in the Now. We are in a state where random impulses and irrational, unintentional actions become key premise providers along with everything we have learned through knowledge and experien...

Introduction Pharmacological interventions to address behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) can have undesirable side effects, therefore non-pharmacological approaches to managing symptoms may be preferable. Past studies show that music therapy can reduce BPSD, and other studies have explored how formal caregivers use music in t...

Music therapy has for a long time been associated with humanistic values, both among music therapists but more and more also among people outside the field. Do we all have a common understanding of what humanistic music therapy is? The point of departure in this paper is the development of a new Norwegian residential care unit for adolescents in ch...

Public health research states that we have never been lonelier and more socially isolated than today. The same research calls for activities and non-medical interventions that can provide people with new ways of coping and give them a sense of pleasure and mastery. This essay asks: What are the potential connections between isolation and musical pa...

How can music therapy contribute to the future design and development of interactive and musical media for co-creation, and vice versa? This question is addressed through a reflective synthesis on selected results of the research project called RHYME (www.rhyme.no), in which the author took part. That project involved families of a child with disab...

PART THREE: MUSIC THERAPY IN THE AREA OF ATTACHMENT/COMMUNICATION AND DEVELOPMENTAL PROBLEMS FOR CHILDREN, ADOLESCENTS AND FAMILIES Roundtable presenters: Jacobsen, Trondalen, McFerranDiscussion group members: Holck, Loth, StensæthModerator: Dileo

Through the adoption of Mikhail Bakhtin's terms, this book presents a new creative theory called Musical Responsiveness. The theory proposes that responsiveness in improvisation is an open-ended, continual process, and that it involves not just achieving meaningfulness and harmony, but also engaging laughter, struggle, dispute, and misunderstanding...

Umberto Eco’s ideas and philosophy have proven to be a profound inspiration to the research team dedicated to the recently completed qualitative interdisciplinary research project ‘RHYME: rhythm & rhyme; co-creation through tangible interaction’, in which both of the present authors participated. The idea of RHYME is that ordinary objects in the ho...

In music pedagogy, as well as in music therapy, the element of improvisation and free playing is often vital to empower and motivate. This article discusses Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of dialogue in such settings by asking what implications it could have on our understanding of musical improvisation in asymmetric relations (e.g. teacher/therapist –...

Imagine that objects in your home environment – let us say a pillow, a carpet or a toy – became musical and interactive. Do you think that they could offer new ways of playing and being together? Could they even have the potential to reduce isolation and passivity and promote health and well-being for some of us? This anthology, the eighth in the S...

This article is written within the frame of the RHYME project (www.rhyme.no), and the point of departure is the testing of the Musical and Interactive Co-Creative Tangibles (CCTs) known as the WAVE in 2012. WAVE offers many cross-media possibilities for interaction and was developed on the basis of the evaluation of the CCTs called ORFI the year be...

The point of departure in this text is the ongoing qualitative interdisciplinary research project RHYME (www.RHYME.no), which addresses the lack of health-promoting interactive and musical Information and Communications Technology (ICT) for families with children with severe disabilities. The project explores a new treatment paradigm based on colla...

Lifelong dedication and membership indicate in and of themselves how important the band RagnaRock has been for its members and leaders. In general, their musical life story is about the change of identity from clients to rock musicians, but this band’s narrative is also about so much more: certain music, rehearsal methods prepared especially for th...

This interview was originally published in Trondalen & Stenseth (Eds.)(2012). Series of Anthology, 5 (pp. 195-226). Oslo: Norwegian Academy of Music. The interview is republished in Voices with the kind permission from the authors and the publisher.

Musical expressions as therapy Aldridge, Gudrun (1998): Die Entwicklung einer Melodie im Kontext Improvisatorischer Musiktherapie. Dargestellt am Beispiel der Melodien «Ein Spaziergang durch Paris» und «Die Abschiedsmelodie». Ph. D. Dissertation, Aalborg University. Reviewed by Even Ruud, Professor, University of Oslo. Music Therapy: Group Vignette...