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About Study Course

Department: Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy
Credit points / ECTS:2 / 3
Course supervisor:Laura Valaine
Study type:Full time
Course level:Master's
Target audience:Medicine
Language:English, Latvian
Branch of science:Psychology

Objective

Provide students with basic knowledge of the functioning of the family, functional and dysfunctional family, the role of these concepts in the pathological and insular processes of diseases, as well as individual developments in the family context, the role of different family members in the physical and psychoemotional development of the child.

Prerequisites

Anatomy, physiology, embriology.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

Students are able to define the concept and nature of the functional and dysfunctional family, the role of these concepts in the pathological and insular processes of diseases, and to define the role of the family in the physical and psychoemotional development of the child, to analyse the clinical relevance of all these concepts in the diagnostic and therapeutic processes of diseases and disorders.

Skills

As a result of learning a study course, students will be able to analyse basic processes for the functioning of the family, aspects of the individual psychoemotional development process, and use them in clinical case analysis.

Competence

Interpret functional and dysfunctional processes within the family, interpret the concepts of child psychoemotional development.

Study course planning

Planning period:Year 2024, Spring semester
Study programmeStudy semesterProgram levelStudy course categoryLecturersSchedule
Medicine, SSNMF6Master’sLimited choiceOļegs Plesunovs, Lelde Smilte-Breča, Annija Gabriela Roze
Medicine, SSNMFz5Master’sLimited choiceOļegs Plesunovs, Laura Valaine, Lelde Logina, Lelde Smilte-Breča
Medicine, MF6Master’sLimited choiceOļegs Plesunovs, Lelde Smilte-Breča, Annija Gabriela Roze, Lelde Logina