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Professional Development
Conferences, workshops

From 19-21 April, the Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) Medical Education Technology Centre (26A Anniņmuižas bulv., Riga) will be the venue of the fourth International Scientific-Practical Conference organised by the RSU Department of Health Psychology and Pedagogy of the Faculty of Public Health and Social Welfare titled: Health and Personal Development: an Interdisciplinary Approach.

The conference aims to expand the horizons of students, researchers and practicians on the ways and means for representatives of different “helping professions” to contribute towards health maintenance, treatment of illnesses and personal development in interdisciplinary contexts. The conference will bring together students and academics from different countries, including Latvia, Russia, Germany and Lithuania, thereby fostering research internationalisation. 

The conference will be held over three days and include diverse activities and events. The first day of the conference (19 April, from 13.00 to 18.00) will be devoted to presentations by students, doctoral students and graduates who will share the outcomes of their research, mostly addressing their work with various client/patient groups and aspects of their professional work and identity. The evening session will commence at 19:00, and consist of a video presentation by Professor Emerita Vija Bergs Lusebrink and Professor Lisa D. Hinz on the findings of neuroscience as the basis for a gradual assessment tool for art expression, providing an in-depth look at the symbolic dimension and its structure.  

Vija Bergs Lusebrink is professor emerita at the University of Louisville, Kentucky (USA), Honorary Member of the American Art Therapy Association, and the author of numerous publications and books, including the book Expressive Therapies Continuum. Lisa D.Hinz works at Notre Dame de Namur University, California (USA) and is author of the book Expressive Therapies Continuum: A Framework for Using Art in Therapy.

On April 20 the floor will be given to another key speaker, Professor Yury Kropotov, one of the leading researchers of event-related cognitive potentials as possible markers in psychiatric and neurological disorders. He is director of the Laboratory for Neurobiology at the Institute of the Human Brain (Russian Academy of Sciences), Professor at the Department of Psychology of the University of Technology and Science in Trondheim (Norway) and a regular visiting professor at Krakow University (Poland).  

The second day of the conference will consist of various presentations given by researchers from various universities on work with diverse patient/client groups, cognitive development and ageing and other health and personality-related topicalities.  

The closing date of the conference (April 21) has six master classes scheduled in two parallel sections devoted to the development of management functions in ontogenesis, subjective well-being measurements, application of art therapy in cancer patients, the importance of neuro-educational methods in work with seniors and the importance of systematic supervision for the prevention of burnout. 

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

Conference REGISTRATION FORM 

Language of the conference: Latvian and English.


Participation in the conference is free of charge. The participants of the conference are entitled to 36 Continuing Education Credits. Conference attendance certificates will be sent to the e-mail address provided in the registration form. 


We hope to meet you at the conference and to discuss with you topical issues in psychological research and assistance-related topics!