Professional Activity and Legal Base of Arts Therapies (VPUPK_104)
About Study Course
Objective
To develop MA students' professionalism, raising awareness of the philosophy of the profession, the professional activity, the biopsychosocial approach to client/patient's assessment and evaluation as well as therapy planning, the collaboration with other functional specialists, the legal and ethical aspects of the profession, as well as the main legal and ethical principles, activity organisation in arts therapies.
Prerequisites
Not required.
Learning outcomes
Explain in theory the system of healthcare services in Latvia, the principles regulating professional activity, describe the professional activity according to the regulatory documentation and entrepreneurship organisation principles; analyse the situations according to the legal norms and ethical principles; characterise the principles of multi-professional teamwork and communication, the limits of arts therapists’ and other specialists' competencies.
Analyse the examples of patients' rights and art therapist's rights of the professional activity, explain the aims and tasks, possibilities and restrictions, professional ethics principles of arts therapies to the potential employers and other specialists; use unified, standardised language to characterise the patient's functioning and health condition in health care environment; apply theoretical knowledge in order to choose the legal form and status that is appropriate for the plans of their professional activity on the basis of the legislative framework.
Prepare and present the information about the aims and tasks, possibilities and restrictions of arts therapies pursuant to the art therapist's performance regulating documents and the basic principles of the professional ethics, using theoretical sources and prepared video material or presentation.
