Health and Personality Development: an Interdisciplinary Approach
7th International Scientific-Practical Conference
22–24 April 2021 ONLINE
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
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.
Invited Speakers' Reports
9:45–10:00 |
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Plenary session | |
|---|---|
10:00–10:45 | Signatures of associative learning in EEG and event-related potentials |
10:45–11:00 | Break |
Plenary session | |
11:00–13:00 | Pragmatic language in neuropsychology |
Brain Imaging in Neuroscience – Corticometry, Volumetry and Tractometry | |
13:00–13:45 | Break |
Plenary session | |
13:45–14:30 | Performing the Self: Autobiographical Performance as a Therapeutic Intervention |
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 |
15:30–16:00 | Break |
Plenary session | |
16:00–17:00 | Expressing the crime for a young sex offender using art therapy in a forensic psychiatric prison in the Netherlands |
Art therapy with a group of toddlers awaiting adoption in Catalunya | |
Workshops with the invited speakers
9:00–12:00 | Autobiographical work in arts therapy * * Active participants – 20 | Zoom |
Tele-neuropsychology and tele-rehabilitation | Zoom | |
Defining and transforming one limiting belief | Zoom | |
12:00–13:00 | Break | |
13:00–16:00 | Working with our present fears and resistances as professionals through dramatic embodied metaphor | Zoom |
Squiggles and forms * * Active participants – 20 | Zoom | |
The neural and endocrine development of emotional circuits Current events in neuroscience research and practice | 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]hepia
rsu[pnkts]lv:
- Author name
- Subject
- 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.
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