Randi Rolvsjord
Biographic Data
| ID | 99094 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Randi Rolvsjord |
| GIVEN NAMES | Randi |
| FAMILY NAME | Rolvsjord |
| SIGNATURE | ROLVSJORD R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Helse Førde |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 133 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Moments of fun
Introduction Mental health issues in children involve complexities and life challenges for the child and their families. Music therapy as part of treatment in mental health care focuses on interaction and communication through music, with emphasis on the children's resources. There is a small, but growing amount of research in the field of music therapy with children in mental health care.Method This qualitative study explored children's own expe…
The gendering of musical instruments
Musical instruments are a key material resource deeply imbedded in a broad range of practices in music therapy. The local uses of musical instruments in therapeutic contexts are influenced by, and interact with, the wider usage of musical instruments in music cultures as a whole. In such a cross-contextual field, musical instruments continue to be a site through which gender is affirmed and performed with many individuals drawn to particular inst…
Five episodes of clients' contributions to the therapeutic relationship
Research on the effectiveness of psychotherapy has contributed to a contextual model that links therapeutic outcomes to a broad set of interacting factors, including the client's involvement, the therapist's techniques and the therapeutic relationship. The focus in this article is on the bidirectional nature of the therapeutic relationship, and more specifically on the clients' contributions to the relationship with the music therapist. This focu…
Concepts of context in music therapy
In contemporary music therapy as well as in related interdisciplinary fields, the importance of context in relation to theory, research, and practice has been emphasized. However, the word context seems to be used in several different ways and conceptualizations of contextual approaches vary too. The objective of this theoretical article is to clarify traditions of language use in relation to context in music therapy. In reviewing and discussing …
What clients do to make music therapy work
The importance of clients' agency and involvement in therapy has been emphasized in music therapy as well as in the broader interdisciplinary field of mental health and psychotherapy. Although the quickly growing discourse and research base of music therapy in mental health care increasingly include user perspectives, most of the existing research and literature focus on the therapists' interventions. This article reports a qualitative multiple c…
Women performing music in prison
To date, discourse on the use of performance in music therapy has mostly focused on the potential risks and benefits to the health of music therapy participants. This article focuses instead on the resources that can come into play when music therapy participants perform publically, drawing upon findings from a qualitative case study of seven women who created and performed a musical in a maximum-security prison in Australia. In-depth interviews …
The Opposite of Treatment
Previous research studies regarding music therapy and severe mental illness have mainly adopted quantitative methodologies in order to study the effectiveness of music therapy interventions. Studies that have explored service users' experiences of participation in music therapy are small in number, and almost nonexistent in the field of psychosis. This study aimed to explore how mental health patients with a diagnosis of psychosis experienced par…
Research Rigour and Therapeutic Flexibility
When doing a randomised controlled trial, concrete and observable a–priori definitions and descriptions of therapy procedures are usually considered necessary for study results to be replicable, and also to enable comparisons between different therapy approaches. However, most music therapy approaches in the field of mental health cannot be defined with a fixed therapy manual without serious danger of losing their therapeutic integrity. Manuals d…
Therapy as Empowerment
In this article the clinical and political implications of empowerment philosophy are elaborated with music therapy practices in mental health services as the point of departure. The concept and the philosophy of empowerment are discussed through a review of literature from community psychology, sociology and feminist psychology. Empowerment is connected to a resource–oriented perspective on music therapy that implies a focus upon the client's st…
"Introduction to "Theory Building in Music Therapy - An International Archive
Music Origins – From a Forum Discussion
2001). Music Origins – From a Forum Discussion. Nordic Journal of Music Therapy: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 100-104
Sophie Learns to Play her Songs of Tears
In this text, the story of Sophie's work in music therapy is presented. The story focuses on how the process of learning musical skills initiates therapeutic work concerning grief and important relationships. The seventeen years old Sophie learned to play the piano and through the songs she chose, she worked with her feelings and difficult experiences. The case study demonstrates how a didactic and a psychotherapeutic area of practice can merge a…
About Forum
I have to wait for the moment that I'm doing the music to figure out what the meaning is”
Suicide – the tragedy of hopelessness Aldridge, David (1998):Suicide – the tragedy of hopelessnessJessica Kingsley Publishers, London/Philadelphia Reviewed by Stella Marie Kennair Ottesen, School Psychologist, Voss, Norway Researching the Arts Therapies Grainger, Roger (1999):Researching the Arts Therapies. A Dramatherapist's PerspectiveJessica Kingsley Publishers, London 180 pages. ISBN 1 85302 654 9. Price £14.95 Reviewed by Brynjulf Stige, Sog…
Når musikken minner om livet
(1998). Nar musikken minner om livet. Nordisk Tidsskrift for Musikkterapi: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 4-13
Another Story about Edward
(1998). Another Story about Edward. Nordisk Tidsskrift for Musikkterapi: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 113-120
Research Rigour and Therapeutic Flexibility
When doing a randomised controlled trial, concrete and observable a–priori definitions and descriptions of therapy procedures are usually considered necessary for study results to be replicable, and also to enable comparisons between different therapy approaches. However, most music therapy approaches in the field of mental health cannot be defined with a fixed therapy manual without serious danger of losing their therapeutic integrity. Manuals d…
The Opposite of Treatment
Previous research studies regarding music therapy and severe mental illness have mainly adopted quantitative methodologies in order to study the effectiveness of music therapy interventions. Studies that have explored service users' experiences of participation in music therapy are small in number, and almost nonexistent in the field of psychosis. This study aimed to explore how mental health patients with a diagnosis of psychosis experienced par…
Therapy as Empowerment
In this article the clinical and political implications of empowerment philosophy are elaborated with music therapy practices in mental health services as the point of departure. The concept and the philosophy of empowerment are discussed through a review of literature from community psychology, sociology and feminist psychology. Empowerment is connected to a resource–oriented perspective on music therapy that implies a focus upon the client's st…
What clients do to make music therapy work
The importance of clients' agency and involvement in therapy has been emphasized in music therapy as well as in the broader interdisciplinary field of mental health and psychotherapy. Although the quickly growing discourse and research base of music therapy in mental health care increasingly include user perspectives, most of the existing research and literature focus on the therapists' interventions. This article reports a qualitative multiple c…
Concepts of context in music therapy
In contemporary music therapy as well as in related interdisciplinary fields, the importance of context in relation to theory, research, and practice has been emphasized. However, the word context seems to be used in several different ways and conceptualizations of contextual approaches vary too. The objective of this theoretical article is to clarify traditions of language use in relation to context in music therapy. In reviewing and discussing …
The gendering of musical instruments
Musical instruments are a key material resource deeply imbedded in a broad range of practices in music therapy. The local uses of musical instruments in therapeutic contexts are influenced by, and interact with, the wider usage of musical instruments in music cultures as a whole. In such a cross-contextual field, musical instruments continue to be a site through which gender is affirmed and performed with many individuals drawn to particular inst…
Sophie Learns to Play her Songs of Tears
In this text, the story of Sophie's work in music therapy is presented. The story focuses on how the process of learning musical skills initiates therapeutic work concerning grief and important relationships. The seventeen years old Sophie learned to play the piano and through the songs she chose, she worked with her feelings and difficult experiences. The case study demonstrates how a didactic and a psychotherapeutic area of practice can merge a…
Five episodes of clients' contributions to the therapeutic relationship
Research on the effectiveness of psychotherapy has contributed to a contextual model that links therapeutic outcomes to a broad set of interacting factors, including the client's involvement, the therapist's techniques and the therapeutic relationship. The focus in this article is on the bidirectional nature of the therapeutic relationship, and more specifically on the clients' contributions to the relationship with the music therapist. This focu…
Another Story about Edward
(1998). Another Story about Edward. Nordisk Tidsskrift for Musikkterapi: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 113-120
Women performing music in prison
To date, discourse on the use of performance in music therapy has mostly focused on the potential risks and benefits to the health of music therapy participants. This article focuses instead on the resources that can come into play when music therapy participants perform publically, drawing upon findings from a qualitative case study of seven women who created and performed a musical in a maximum-security prison in Australia. In-depth interviews …
"Introduction to "Theory Building in Music Therapy - An International Archive
Når musikken minner om livet
(1998). Nar musikken minner om livet. Nordisk Tidsskrift for Musikkterapi: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 4-13
Another Story about Edward
(1998). Another Story about Edward. Nordisk Tidsskrift for Musikkterapi: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 113-120
About Forum
I have to wait for the moment that I'm doing the music to figure out what the meaning is”
Suicide – the tragedy of hopelessness Aldridge, David (1998):Suicide – the tragedy of hopelessnessJessica Kingsley Publishers, London/Philadelphia Reviewed by Stella Marie Kennair Ottesen, School Psychologist, Voss, Norway Researching the Arts Therapies Grainger, Roger (1999):Researching the Arts Therapies. A Dramatherapist's PerspectiveJessica Kingsley Publishers, London 180 pages. ISBN 1 85302 654 9. Price £14.95 Reviewed by Brynjulf Stige, Sog…
Music Origins – From a Forum Discussion
2001). Music Origins – From a Forum Discussion. Nordic Journal of Music Therapy: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 100-104
Sophie Learns to Play her Songs of Tears
In this text, the story of Sophie's work in music therapy is presented. The story focuses on how the process of learning musical skills initiates therapeutic work concerning grief and important relationships. The seventeen years old Sophie learned to play the piano and through the songs she chose, she worked with her feelings and difficult experiences. The case study demonstrates how a didactic and a psychotherapeutic area of practice can merge a…
"Introduction to "Theory Building in Music Therapy - An International Archive
Therapy as Empowerment
In this article the clinical and political implications of empowerment philosophy are elaborated with music therapy practices in mental health services as the point of departure. The concept and the philosophy of empowerment are discussed through a review of literature from community psychology, sociology and feminist psychology. Empowerment is connected to a resource–oriented perspective on music therapy that implies a focus upon the client's st…
Research Rigour and Therapeutic Flexibility
When doing a randomised controlled trial, concrete and observable a–priori definitions and descriptions of therapy procedures are usually considered necessary for study results to be replicable, and also to enable comparisons between different therapy approaches. However, most music therapy approaches in the field of mental health cannot be defined with a fixed therapy manual without serious danger of losing their therapeutic integrity. Manuals d…
Concepts of context in music therapy
In contemporary music therapy as well as in related interdisciplinary fields, the importance of context in relation to theory, research, and practice has been emphasized. However, the word context seems to be used in several different ways and conceptualizations of contextual approaches vary too. The objective of this theoretical article is to clarify traditions of language use in relation to context in music therapy. In reviewing and discussing …
What clients do to make music therapy work
The importance of clients' agency and involvement in therapy has been emphasized in music therapy as well as in the broader interdisciplinary field of mental health and psychotherapy. Although the quickly growing discourse and research base of music therapy in mental health care increasingly include user perspectives, most of the existing research and literature focus on the therapists' interventions. This article reports a qualitative multiple c…
Women performing music in prison
To date, discourse on the use of performance in music therapy has mostly focused on the potential risks and benefits to the health of music therapy participants. This article focuses instead on the resources that can come into play when music therapy participants perform publically, drawing upon findings from a qualitative case study of seven women who created and performed a musical in a maximum-security prison in Australia. In-depth interviews …
The Opposite of Treatment
Previous research studies regarding music therapy and severe mental illness have mainly adopted quantitative methodologies in order to study the effectiveness of music therapy interventions. Studies that have explored service users' experiences of participation in music therapy are small in number, and almost nonexistent in the field of psychosis. This study aimed to explore how mental health patients with a diagnosis of psychosis experienced par…
Five episodes of clients' contributions to the therapeutic relationship
Research on the effectiveness of psychotherapy has contributed to a contextual model that links therapeutic outcomes to a broad set of interacting factors, including the client's involvement, the therapist's techniques and the therapeutic relationship. The focus in this article is on the bidirectional nature of the therapeutic relationship, and more specifically on the clients' contributions to the relationship with the music therapist. This focu…
The gendering of musical instruments
Musical instruments are a key material resource deeply imbedded in a broad range of practices in music therapy. The local uses of musical instruments in therapeutic contexts are influenced by, and interact with, the wider usage of musical instruments in music cultures as a whole. In such a cross-contextual field, musical instruments continue to be a site through which gender is affirmed and performed with many individuals drawn to particular inst…
Moments of fun
Introduction Mental health issues in children involve complexities and life challenges for the child and their families. Music therapy as part of treatment in mental health care focuses on interaction and communication through music, with emphasis on the children's resources. There is a small, but growing amount of research in the field of music therapy with children in mental health care.Method This qualitative study explored children's own expe…
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