MMag.a Monika MARIK, PhD


Email: marik@mdw.ac.at


Main research fields:

  • Emotion regulation
  • music therapy diagnostics
  • mixed-methods research
  • antidiscriminatory research approaches

Diploma studies in music therapy at mdw (grad. 2011); diploma studies in psychology at the University of Vienna (grad. 2011), doctoral studies in music therapy at mdw (degree 2023).

Since 2017 she has been teaching at the Department of Music Therapy and since 2023 is a project team member at WZMF – Music Therapy Research Centre Vienna ; her music therapy clinical work has been with children and adolescents in the field of emotional disorders, developmental delays and disabilities.

Additional training: Certificate course EBQ (instrument for assessing the quality of interpersonal relationships); psychotherapeutic preparatory course, specialist training as a clinical and health psychologist; training as a sex educator (with a focus on people with disabilities).

Selected publications:

Marik, M. (2022). Der Beitrag der Musiktherapie zur Konzeption und Diagnostik der Emotions(dys)regulation im Kindesalter, unv. Dissertation, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien.

Marik, M. & Stegemann, T. (2016). Introducing a new model of emotion dysregulation with implications for everyday use of music and music therapy. Musicae Scientiae 20, 53–67.

Marik, M. & Stegemann, T. (2016). The contribution of music therapy to assessment and to conceptualisation of emotion dysregulation during childhood. Nordic Journal of Music Therapy 25(1), 45–46.