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Research in Placement
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:4.00
Study Course Accepted:28.03.2022 11:53:40
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | VPUPK_097 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Clinical Medicine; Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation | Target Audience: | Medicine | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Inese Paiča | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Department of Health Psychology and Paedagogy | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Riga, 5 J. Asara Street, vppk rsu[pnkts]lv, +37167061587 | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 0 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 0 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 0 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 8 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 16 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 16 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | All year 1 and 2 compulsory study courses. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To enhance the research competence in arts therapies in specialisation. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Information about study course content, demands and assessment criteria. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | How to write a further professional development plan. | Classes | 7.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Organization and implementation of the research process. Preparation and presentation of further professional development plan. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Written “Further development plan” (pass/ fail), self-reflection about one’s experience during the research (pass/ fail). | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Report (Placement) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Students compare and critically analyse different research strategies and designs to achieve their research goals as well as assess the potential risks and hazards that might arise during the research. Compare and choose the most suitable theoretical approaches and conceptions, ground the link between theory and practical work. Analyse ethical dilemmas. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Elaborate their own study, substantiating the topicality and problem of the study, formulating the aim and the research issue/ hypothesis, forming purposeful bibliography by choosing appropriate methods of data acquisition and analysis, integrating the ethical requirements of scientific research during the process of inclusion and selection of research subjects, conducting their consent. Apply the most suitable methods, techniques and interventions for gaining the set goal. Are critical during the process and towards the result. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Students organise and manage their research project. Are conducting their activities ethically, according to their professional competence, recognise their professional advantages and restrictions. Are self-reflecting and reflecting about colleagues during the supervisions. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Mārtinsone, K. un Pipere, A. (red.) (2021). Zinātniskās darbības metodoloģija: Starpdisciplināra perspektīva: Kolektīvā monogrāfija. Rīgas Stradiņa universitāte. | ||||||||
| 2 | Fancourt, D. (2017). Arts in Health. Designing and Researching Interventions. Oxford: Oxford University Press. | ||||||||
| 3 | Gilroy A. (2006). Art Therapy, Research and Evidence Based Practice. London: Sage Publications. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Kapitan, L. (2010). Introduction to art therapy research. New York: Routledge. | ||||||||
| 2 | Murphy, K., & Wheeler, B. (2016). Music Therapy Research. Barcelona. | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association | ||||||||
| 2 | International Journal of Arts Medicine | ||||||||
| 3 | Исцеляющее искусство. Журнал Арт-терапевтической Ассоциации СПб | ||||||||
| 4 | The Arts in psychotherapy | ||||||||
