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About Study Course

Credit points / ECTS:2 / 3
Course supervisor:Kristīne Vende-Kotova
Study type:Full time
Course level:Bachelor
Target audience:Medicine
Language:Latvian
Branch of science:Clinical Medicine; Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation

Objective

To provide audio and speech therapy students with an opportunity to get acquainted with art therapy, its methods and their specificity in different specialisations, to raise awareness of the mutual collaboration possibilities between audio speech therapists and art therapists as a multi-disciplinary team, during practical classes by using simulations to acquire methods and techniques that can be used in the profession within their competencies.

Prerequisites

Not required.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

A student names and characterises the specialisations of arts therapies, their main theoretical policies, theoretical approaches, the groups of patients the art therapists work with, characterises how an audio speech therapist could collaborate with an art therapist in a multi-disciplinary team, compares the differences between the arts therapy and the therapeutic art.

Skills

Chooses the most appropriate collaboration possibilities with an art therapist, applies the methods and techniques of arts therapy within their competencies.

Competence

Student formulates and substantiates what the arts therapy means, what its specialisations are and how it differs from audio and speech therapy, explains the further collaboration possibilities.

Study course planning

Planning period:Year 2024, Autumn semester
Study programmeStudy semesterProgram levelStudy course categoryLecturersSchedule
Audiologopaedics, RFA7Bachelor’sRequired