Introduction to Art Therapy

Study Course Description

Course Description Statuss:Approved

Course Description Version:8.00

Study Course Accepted:05.02.2024 09:39:20

Study Course Information
Course Code:		VPUPK_028		LQF level:		Level 6
Credit Points:		2.00		ECTS:		3.00
Branch of Science:		Clinical Medicine; Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation		Target Audience:		Marketing and Advertising; Nursing Science; Political Science; Sociology; Sports Trainer; Life Science; Civil and Military Defense; Pharmacy; Dentistry; Person and Property Defence; Health Management; Pedagogy; Rehabilitation; Information and Communication Science; Social Welfare and Social Work; Psychology; Biology; Social Anthropology; Public Health; Medical Services; Law; Management Science; Communication Science; Clinical Pharmacy; Medical Technologies; Business Management; Juridical Science; Medicine
Study Course Supervisor
Course Supervisor:		Kristīne Vende-Kotova
Study Course Implementer
Structural Unit:		Department of Health Psychology and Paedagogy
The Head of Structural Unit:
Contacts:		Riga, 5 J. Asara Street, vppkrsu[pnkts]lv, +37167061587
Study Course Planning
Full-Time - Semester No.1
Lectures (count)		8	Lecture Length (academic hours)		2	Total Contact Hours of Lectures		16
Classes (count)		8	Class Length (academic hours)		2	Total Contact Hours of Classes		16
Total Contact Hours								32
Study course description
Preliminary Knowledge:
Not required.
Objective:
To provide students with an opportunity to get acquainted with art therapy, its methods and their specificity in different specialisations, to raise awareness of the mutual collaboration possibilities between rehabilitation therapists and art therapists as a multi-disciplinary team, during practical classes with the help of simulations to acquire methods and techniques that can be used in the profession within their competencies.
Topic Layout (Full-Time)
No.	Topic			Type of Implementation		Number	Venue
1	Introductory lecture on art therapy, the history of its development in Latvia and the world. The role of art therapies in the health care in Latvia, work with different groups of patients. Art therapist's performance regulating documents. The main ethical and legal policies. Evidence-based importance of practice in art therapies. Art therapy process. Therapeutic relationships. Difference between arts therapy and therapeutic art or art application for the purposes of self-expression.			Lectures		4.00	auditorium
2	Visually plastic art therapy.			Lectures		1.00	auditorium
				Classes		2.00	auditorium
3	Music therapy.			Lectures		1.00	auditorium
				Classes		2.00	auditorium
4	Dance movement therapy.			Lectures		1.00	auditorium
				Classes		2.00	auditorium
5	Drama therapy.			Lectures		1.00	auditorium
				Classes		2.00	auditorium
Assessment
Unaided Work:
To read the indicated sources of literature independently in order to have success in writing an essay “My as a Prospective Specialist Experience in Arts Therapies” in compliance with the requirements below. Student's academic control work must not use artificial intelligence (AI). AI can only be used creatively to complement self generated text, such as generating illustrative images. In order to evaluate the quality of the study course as a whole, the student must fill out the study course evaluation questionnaire on the Student Portal.
Assessment Criteria:
The final grade consists of two parts: 1. Exam/test, based on lecture materials, about the theoretical concepts of art therapy (40%). 2. Essay “My as a Prospective... Experience in Arts Therapies” and its timely submission to the lecturer by the set date (60%). Requirements for the essay: it should reflect the experience, gained during practical classes, but it should also clarify how they as prospective... see the collaboration with an art therapist in a multi-disciplinary team. On the basis of the literature acquisition, the learnt and experienced lecture material, the essay must explain how arts therapy differs from student's future speciality.
Final Examination (Full-Time):		Exam (Written)
Final Examination (Part-Time):
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge:		A student names and characterises the specialisations of arts therapies, their main theoretical policies, theoretical approaches, the groups of patients the art therapists work with, characterises how they could collaborate with an art therapist in a multi-disciplinary team, compares the differences between the arts therapy and the therapeutic art.
Skills:		Chooses the most appropriate collaboration possibilities with an art therapist, applies the methods and techniques of arts therapy within their competencies.
Competencies:		Students formulate and substantiate what the arts therapy means, what its specialisations are and how it differs from their next profession, explain the further collaboration possibilities.
Bibliography
No.	Reference
Required Reading
1	Mārtinsone, K. (red.). (2021). Mākslu terapija. RaKa: Rīga. (atjaunotais izdevums)
2	Mārtinsone K. & Krevica, E. (sast.). (2014). Mākslu terapija dažādām klientu / pacientu grupām. Rīga: Rīgas Stradiņa Universitāte.
3	Mārtinsone, K. (red.). (2010). Mākslu metodes un tehnikas profesionālajā darbībā. Rīga: RaKa.
4	Mārtinsone, K. (red.). (2010). Pētījumi mākslu terapijā. Rīga: Drukātava.
Additional Reading
1	Mārtinsone K., Mihailova S., Mihailovs I.J., Majore-Dūšele I., Paipare M. (2008). 2. Mākslu terapija un tās attīstības konteksti (integratīvi eklektiskā pieeja Latvijā). Rīga: Rīgas Stradiņa universitāte.
2	Karkou, V. & Sanderson, P. (2006). Art Therapies: A Research-Based Map of the Field. London: Elsevier Churchill Livingstone.
Other Information Sources
1	www.arttherapy.lv
2	www.dkt.lv
3	www.muzikasterapija.lv
4	www.dramasterapija.lv