Health and Personality Development: an Interdisciplinary Approach

Key topics

• The psychological characteristics and behaviour of Latvian residents during the COVID-19 pandemic;
• Psychological research and assessment of professional work;
• Psychological help and support when working with different client and patient groups;
• Professional identity, professional competence and development.

Outline

Downloadable programme

22 April

The symposium is dedicated to the findings from studies on support for Latvian citizens' mental resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic. After the symposium, work will continue in four traditional sessions dedicated to such topics as psychological research, working with different client and patient groups, as well as issues related to professional identity and competence, followed by master classes.

23 April

Invited Speakers' Reports

Zoom

9:45–10:00	Musical performance Opening Dean of the Faculty of Rehabilitation assoc. prof. Signe Tomsone Vice-Dean of Faculty of Public Health and Social Welfare asst. prof. Toms Pulmanis
Plenary session Chairs: assoc. prof. Signe Tomsone, asst. prof. Toms Pulmanis
10:00–10:45	Signatures of associative learning in EEG and event-related potentials PhD Yuri Pavlov (Germany)
10:45–11:00	Break
Plenary session Chairs: asst. prof. Jeļena Ļubenko, asst. Kristīne Šneidere
11:00–13:00	Pragmatic language in neuropsychology PhD Sonia Montemurro (Italy)
	Brain Imaging in Neuroscience – Corticometry, Volumetry and Tractometry Asst. Nauris Zdanovskis (Latvia), assoc. prof. Ardis Platkājis (Latvia)
13:00–13:45	Break
Plenary session Chairs: asst. Jana Duhovska, Agne Rožlapa-Junkere
13:45–14:30	Performing the Self: Autobiographical Performance as a Therapeutic Intervention PhD Susana Pendzik (Israel)
14:30–14:45	Break
14:45–15:30	Embracing contradiction as a creative force: a dialectical response to cultural and political fragmentation and its relevance to mental and physical health Prof. Anna Seymour (UK)
15:30–16:00	Break
Plenary session Chairs: asst. Elīna Akmane, asst. Zane Krieķe
16:00–17:00	Expressing the crime for a young sex offender using art therapy in a forensic psychiatric prison in the Netherlands Thijs de Moor (Netherlands)
	Art therapy with a group of toddlers awaiting adoption in Catalunya Marcela Andrade del Corro (UK)

24 April

Workshops with the invited speakers

9:00–12:00	Autobiographical work in arts therapy * PhD Susana Pendzik (Israel) * Active participants – 20	Zoom
	Tele-neuropsychology and tele-rehabilitation PhD Sonia Montemurro (Italy)	Zoom
	Defining and transforming one limiting belief Natālija Dieviņa (Bulgaria)	Zoom
12:00–13:00	Break
13:00–16:00	Working with our present fears and resistances as professionals through dramatic embodied metaphor Prof. Anna Seymour (UK)	Zoom
	Squiggles and forms * Thijs de Moor (Netherlands), Marcela Andrade del Corro (UK) * Active participants – 20	Zoom
	The neural and endocrine development of emotional circuits PhD Anna Tyborowska (Netherlands) Current events in neuroscience research and practice PhD Ainārs Stepens (Latvia)	Zoom

Sign upThe conference is organised by the Department of Health Psychology and Paedagogy at the RSU Faculty of Public Health and Social Welfare.

We encourage and welcome students, psychologists, healthcare specialists, supervisors and representatives of other helping and teaching professions to participate in the conference.

Participation in the conference is free of charge.

• Speakers presenting research papers will receive a certificate.
• Conference participants are entitled to 36 continuing education credits (12 credits for each day and 4 academic hours for each master class). Attendance certificates will be sent to the e-mail address provided on the registration form within one month after the conference.

Registration

Applications to participate in the conference with a presentation are open from 18 January to 25 February. The following information must be submitted via email to conference[pnkts]hepiarsu[pnkts]lv:

1. Author name
2. Subject
3. Abstract (250 words)

The registration form for passive participants will be published on the RSU website on 1 March.

Contact information: conference[pnkts]hepiarsu[pnkts]lv, phone: +371 67062704

We hope to meet you at the conference to discuss topical issues related to psychological examination and assessment, as well as the improvement of psychological assistance and monitoring services in Latvia.