Meertine M.J. Laansma
Senior Lecturer, Supervisor and Research Coach, former programme leader for the development of the Master in Music Therapy Programme at Codarts, University for the Arts, Rotterdam, NL.
Senior clinical music therapist, MMTh, SRMTh, NMT-M, PsyQ Den Haag, Department of Affective Disorders,
Zuyd University of Applied Sciences, Master's degree, Master of Art Therapies, Music Therapy & Research; The Banff Centre, Calgary; Codarts, Classical Piano; Royal Conservatoire, The Hague BMusEd, Music Education, Music Therapy.
Honors and Awards:
Experiential Theatre productions: Marga Klompe Prijs, 1991 Eucrea Award, Dublin, 1991
Senior clinical music therapist, MMTh, SRMTh, NMT-M, PsyQ Den Haag, Department of Affective Disorders,
Zuyd University of Applied Sciences, Master's degree, Master of Art Therapies, Music Therapy & Research; The Banff Centre, Calgary; Codarts, Classical Piano; Royal Conservatoire, The Hague BMusEd, Music Education, Music Therapy.
Honors and Awards:
Experiential Theatre productions: Marga Klompe Prijs, 1991 Eucrea Award, Dublin, 1991
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Conference Presentations by Meertine M.J. Laansma
Speakers
Amanda Tilot - Synesthesia of sound and color
Niels Schiller - Emotional and informative communication
Katharina Riebel - Song and dance in avian mate choice
Hans Slabbekoorn - Sounds of size: the acoustic under water world
Elif Ozcan Vieira - Alarm fatigue
Meertine Laansma - Music therapy
Meertine Laansma & Olaf Tarenskeen: Music & Talk on music listening.
‘The principal emotional content of music arises through the composer's choreographing of expectation. Composers sometimes thwart the listener's expectation, sometime delay the expected outcome, or simply give the listener what is expected'. (Huron, 2016, Meyer (1956)
Expectations originate in evolutionarily adaptive mechanisms for anticipating future events. Accurate expectations facilitate gathering information from the world and aid in preparing appropriate motor responses. Expectations are learned in response to statistical regularities evident in one or more cognitively encapsulated environments. Cognitive encapsulation permits the co-existence of different "genres", so diverging expectations can arise depending on how the listener conceives of the genre.
Based on recent literature regarding music therapy and cognitive therapy like Luce (2001) and Hilliard (2001), I developed a music therapy model in which cognitive techniques as mental imagery and cognitive reconstruction can be used in the treatment of depression.
In selecting the cognitive interventions to be used, I came to reconsider the musics to use.
In listening to music, expectations about the direction the music is going will be made. (Honing, 2009). Where contemporary music regulates frozen thoughts it opens path for other ways of thinking, like taking distance or irony.
As research showed that where the character of the music is to be determined for mood, other stimulations are necessary for a cognitive evaluation, by which the effect of the music is increased. As in an increasingly visual culture, images and pictures seem to be more accessible than words, and can be as rich and complex. (Smelik, 2006).
In this paper I will argue that a combination of images and contemporary music, used as a cognitive reframing intervention, is an extra stimulus to identify dysfunctional thoughts, emotions, express feelings, facilitate communication and provide reflection.
The Music of Music Therapy Conference. 2010. Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge UK.
music therapy in the treatment of depression
Meertine M.J. Laansma, and P.M. Judith Haffmans
Department of Mood Disorders, PsyQ Haaglanden, The Hague, The Netherlands
In this paper an experimental multiple case design (N = 8) study will be presented on the effect of music listening to preferred music in receptive music therapy in the treatment of chronic depression with outpatients.
Background: Depression causes problems in the recognition and experience of emotions.
Music listening seems to be effective in experiencing emotions and regulate mood and is linked to emotional processing, which helps patients to recognize, tolerate and regulate emotions.
Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate which affect regulation strategies are used by depressive patients while listening to music in music therapy for regulating their mood.
Method: An exploratory study was performed with outpatients in a part-time group in a day
treatment programme. Experienced emotions and strategies were measured after listening
by two self-report questionnaires and underlying mechanisms were queried in the sessions.
Discussion/conclusion: The results suggest that music listening is an effective intervention
for identifying and intensifying experienced emotions and regulation strategies. Significant
correlations between strategies and regulated emotions gave insight into the components
of affect regulation strategies.
Keywords Receptive music therapy; affect regulation; mood disorders.
Nordic Journal of Music Therapy
ISSN: 0809-8131 (Print) 1944-8260 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rnjm20
Speakers
Amanda Tilot - Synesthesia of sound and color
Niels Schiller - Emotional and informative communication
Katharina Riebel - Song and dance in avian mate choice
Hans Slabbekoorn - Sounds of size: the acoustic under water world
Elif Ozcan Vieira - Alarm fatigue
Meertine Laansma - Music therapy
Meertine Laansma & Olaf Tarenskeen: Music & Talk on music listening.
‘The principal emotional content of music arises through the composer's choreographing of expectation. Composers sometimes thwart the listener's expectation, sometime delay the expected outcome, or simply give the listener what is expected'. (Huron, 2016, Meyer (1956)
Expectations originate in evolutionarily adaptive mechanisms for anticipating future events. Accurate expectations facilitate gathering information from the world and aid in preparing appropriate motor responses. Expectations are learned in response to statistical regularities evident in one or more cognitively encapsulated environments. Cognitive encapsulation permits the co-existence of different "genres", so diverging expectations can arise depending on how the listener conceives of the genre.
Based on recent literature regarding music therapy and cognitive therapy like Luce (2001) and Hilliard (2001), I developed a music therapy model in which cognitive techniques as mental imagery and cognitive reconstruction can be used in the treatment of depression.
In selecting the cognitive interventions to be used, I came to reconsider the musics to use.
In listening to music, expectations about the direction the music is going will be made. (Honing, 2009). Where contemporary music regulates frozen thoughts it opens path for other ways of thinking, like taking distance or irony.
As research showed that where the character of the music is to be determined for mood, other stimulations are necessary for a cognitive evaluation, by which the effect of the music is increased. As in an increasingly visual culture, images and pictures seem to be more accessible than words, and can be as rich and complex. (Smelik, 2006).
In this paper I will argue that a combination of images and contemporary music, used as a cognitive reframing intervention, is an extra stimulus to identify dysfunctional thoughts, emotions, express feelings, facilitate communication and provide reflection.
The Music of Music Therapy Conference. 2010. Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge UK.
music therapy in the treatment of depression
Meertine M.J. Laansma, and P.M. Judith Haffmans
Department of Mood Disorders, PsyQ Haaglanden, The Hague, The Netherlands
In this paper an experimental multiple case design (N = 8) study will be presented on the effect of music listening to preferred music in receptive music therapy in the treatment of chronic depression with outpatients.
Background: Depression causes problems in the recognition and experience of emotions.
Music listening seems to be effective in experiencing emotions and regulate mood and is linked to emotional processing, which helps patients to recognize, tolerate and regulate emotions.
Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate which affect regulation strategies are used by depressive patients while listening to music in music therapy for regulating their mood.
Method: An exploratory study was performed with outpatients in a part-time group in a day
treatment programme. Experienced emotions and strategies were measured after listening
by two self-report questionnaires and underlying mechanisms were queried in the sessions.
Discussion/conclusion: The results suggest that music listening is an effective intervention
for identifying and intensifying experienced emotions and regulation strategies. Significant
correlations between strategies and regulated emotions gave insight into the components
of affect regulation strategies.
Keywords Receptive music therapy; affect regulation; mood disorders.
Nordic Journal of Music Therapy
ISSN: 0809-8131 (Print) 1944-8260 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rnjm20