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Professional Activity and Legal Base of Arts Therapies

Study Course Description

Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:7.00
Study Course Accepted:28.02.2022 16:52:04
Study Course Information
Course Code:VPUPK_104LQF level:Level 7
Credit Points:2.00ECTS:3.00
Branch of Science:Clinical Medicine; Sports Medicine and RehabilitationTarget Audience:Medical Services
Study Course Supervisor
Course Supervisor:Jana Duhovska
Study Course Implementer
Structural Unit:Department of Health Psychology and Paedagogy
The Head of Structural Unit:
Contacts:Riga, 5 J. Asara Street, vppkatrsu[pnkts]lv, +37167061587
Study Course Planning
Full-Time - Semester No.1
Lectures (count)6Lecture Length (academic hours)2Total Contact Hours of Lectures12
Classes (count)6Class Length (academic hours)2Total Contact Hours of Classes12
Total Contact Hours24
Study course description
Preliminary Knowledge:
Not required.
Objective:
To develop MA students' professionalism, raising awareness of the philosophy of the profession, the professional activity, the biopsychosocial approach to client/patient's assessment and evaluation as well as therapy planning, the collaboration with other functional specialists, the legal and ethical aspects of the profession, as well as the main legal and ethical principles, activity organisation in arts therapies.
Topic Layout (Full-Time)
No.TopicType of ImplementationNumberVenue
1The society's health policies and the funding of the health care system and rehabilitation in division of it. Hierarchy of health care services. Integration of arts therapies into the health care, social care and educational systems.Lectures1.00METC
2Professional activity of art therapist and its competencies, regulating documents. Development of arts therapies curricula and professional associations, the experience abroad and the situation in Latvia.Lectures1.00METC
Classes1.00METC
3Work of a multi-disciplinary team in a psychosocial rehabilitation. Approaches in patient care: a significant factor in defining the type of communication. Importance of feedback in effective communication. Opportunities of patient and doctor or health care specialist communication development. Patient compliance and its influencing factors.Lectures1.00METC
Classes1.00METC
4Fundamental principles and legal concepts of ethics. Patients' individual and social rights. Legal and ethical aspects of health care specialists' professional activity. Ethical guidelines in art therapist's work, ethical dilemmas, and their solution. The use of the art therapists' code of ethics and other regulatory documents in ethical decision-making.Lectures1.00auditorium
Classes2.00auditorium
5Legal forms of the entrepreneurship organisation and their regulatory framework. Economic activity and business, the principles of the organisation of private practice in the professional activity.Lectures2.00auditorium
Classes2.00auditorium
Assessment
Unaided Work:
To independently consolidate the lecture material by reading the indicated sources systematically; to prepare for the examination – test. To analyse in writing one of the given cases in relation to an ethics dilemma, to perform the analysis and presentation of this dilemma. To analyse in writing one of the given cases in relation to setting goals for arts therapies according to ICF. To prepare a video material or a presentation of one of the arts therapies specialisations and present it.
Assessment Criteria:
1. Interim test about the solution of ethical dilemma (passed/failed). 2. Written examination/test about art therapist's professional activity and its legal issues (50%). 3. Video presentation or a presentation of one of the arts therapies specialisations. Explanation of the arts therapies' aims (50%). 4. Independent, systematic acquisition of the indicated sources and literature. Active participation in lectures and seminars.
Final Examination (Full-Time):Exam
Final Examination (Part-Time):
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge:Explain in theory the system of healthcare services in Latvia, the principles regulating professional activity, describe the professional activity according to the regulatory documentation and entrepreneurship organisation principles; analyse the situations according to the legal norms and ethical principles; characterise the principles of multi-professional teamwork and communication, the limits of arts therapists’ and other specialists' competencies.
Skills:Analyse the examples of patients' rights and art therapist's rights of the professional activity, explain the aims and tasks, possibilities and restrictions, professional ethics principles of arts therapies to the potential employers and other specialists; use unified, standardised language to characterise the patient's functioning and health condition in health care environment; apply theoretical knowledge in order to choose the legal form and status that is appropriate for the plans of their professional activity on the basis of the legislative framework.
Competencies:Prepare and present the information about the aims and tasks, possibilities and restrictions of arts therapies pursuant to the art therapist's performance regulating documents and the basic principles of the professional ethics, using theoretical sources and prepared video material or presentation.
Bibliography
No.Reference
Required Reading
1Mākslu terapija. (2021). Red. K. Mārtinsone. Rīga: RaKa. (atkārtotais izdevums)
2Art therapy and health care (2013). Ed. C.A. Malchiodi. New York; London: Guilford Press.
3Creative Arts Therapies Manual: a guide to the history, theoretical approaches, assessment, and work with special populations of art, play, dance, music, drama, and poetry therapies (2006). Ed. S.L. Brooke. Springfield, Ill. : Charles C Thomas Publisher, LTD.
4Beauchamp, T., Childress, J.F. (2001). Principles of Biomedical Etics. New York: Oxford.
5Biomedicīnas ētika: teorija un prakse. (2006). Red. V. Sīle. Rīga: RSU.
6Silverman, J., Kurtz, S., Draper, J. (2006). Skills for Communicating with Patients. Radcliffe Publishing Ltd, UK.
7Džounss, R. Projektu vadības pamati. Praktisks ceļvedis projektu vadībā un izpildē. (2008). Rīga: LID.
8Forands, I. (2009). Biznesa vadības tehnoloģijas. Rīga: Latvijas Izglītības fonds.
Additional Reading
1Karkou, V., Sanderson P. (2006). Arts Therapies: A Research Based Map of the Field. London: Elsevier.
2Moon, B. (2006). Ethical Issues in Art Therapy. Springfield: Charles C. Thomas Publisher.
3Moon, B. (2008). Introduction to Art Therapy: Faith in the Product. Springfield: Charles C. Thomas.
4Pelham, G. (2007). Counselling Skills for Creative Arts Therapists. London: Worth.
5Mākslas terapija: teorija un prakse. (2009). Red.. K. Mārtinsone. Rīga: Drukātava.
6Mārtinsone, K., & Mihailova, S. (Sast.). (2017). Supervīzija: teorija un prakse. Rīga: RSU
7Silverman J., Kurtz S., Draper J. (2006). Skills for Communicating with Patients. Radcliffe Publishing Ltd, UK.
8Mākslas terapijas izglītības desmit gadi Rīgas Stradiņa universitātē. No ieceres līdz profesijai. (2016). Sast. J.Duhovska un K.Mārtinsone. Rīga: RSU
Other Information Sources
1ANO Vispārējā cilvēktiesību deklarācija.
2Ārstniecības likums.
3Ārstniecības personu sertifikācijas un resertifikācijas kārtība.
4Eiropas konvencija par Cilvēktiesībām un Pamatbrīvībām.
5Mākslas terapeita profesijas standarts
6Mākslas terapeitu ētikas kodekss.
7Mākslu terapijas medicīniskās tehnoloģijas.
8Pacientu tiesību likums.