Veidlapa Nr. M-3 (8)
Study Course Description
Introduction to Art Therapy
Course Code
VPUPK_028
Branch of Science
Clinical medicine; Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation
ECTS
3.00
Target Audience
Biology; Business Management; Civil and Military Defense; Clinical Pharmacy; Communication Science; Dentistry; Health Management; Information and Communication Science; Juridical Science; Law; Life Science; Management Science; Marketing and Advertising; Medical Services; Medical Technologies; Medicine; Nursing Science; Pedagogy; Person and Property Defence; Pharmacy; Political Science; Psychology; Public Health; Rehabilitation; Social Anthropology; Social Welfare and Social Work; Sociology; Sports Trainer
LQF
Level 6
Study Type And Form
Full-Time
Study Course Implementer
Course Supervisor
Kristīne Vende
Structure Unit Manager
Kristīne Mārtinsone
Structural Unit
Department of Health Psychology and Paedagogy
Contacts
Riga, Dzirciema Street 16, vppk@rsu.lv, +37167061587
About Study Course
Objective
To provide 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 rehabilitation therapists and art therapists as a multi-disciplinary team, during practical classes with the help of simulations to acquire methods and techniques that can be used in the profession within their competencies.
Preliminary Knowledge
Not required.
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge
1.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 they could collaborate with an art therapist in a multi-disciplinary team, compares the differences between the arts therapy and the therapeutic art.
Skills
1.Chooses the most appropriate collaboration possibilities with an art therapist, applies the methods and techniques of arts therapy within their competencies.
Competences
1.Students formulate and substantiate what the arts therapy means, what its specialisations are and how it differs from their next profession, explain the further collaboration possibilities.
Assessment
Individual work
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To read the indicated sources of literature independently in order to have success in writing an essay “My as a Prospective Specialist Experience in Arts Therapies” in compliance with the requirements below. Student's academic control work must not use artificial intelligence (AI). AI can only be used creatively to complement self generated text, such as generating illustrative images.
In order to evaluate the quality of the study course as a whole, the student must fill out the study course evaluation questionnaire on the Student Portal.
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Examination
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The final grade consists of two parts:
1. Exam/test, based on lecture materials, about the theoretical concepts of art therapy (40%).
2. Essay “My as a Prospective... Experience in Arts Therapies” and its timely submission to the lecturer by the set date (60%).
Requirements for the essay: it should reflect the experience, gained during practical classes, but it should also clarify how they as prospective... see the collaboration with an art therapist in a multi-disciplinary team. On the basis of the literature acquisition, the learnt and experienced lecture material, the essay must explain how arts therapy differs from student's future speciality.
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Study Course Theme Plan
FULL-TIME
Part 1
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Lecture
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Introductory lecture on art therapy, the history of its development in Latvia and the world. The role of art therapies in the health care in Latvia, work with different groups of patients. Art therapist's performance regulating documents. The main ethical and legal policies. Evidence-based importance of practice in art therapies. Art therapy process. Therapeutic relationships. Difference between arts therapy and therapeutic art or art application for the purposes of self-expression.
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Introductory lecture on art therapy, the history of its development in Latvia and the world. The role of art therapies in the health care in Latvia, work with different groups of patients. Art therapist's performance regulating documents. The main ethical and legal policies. Evidence-based importance of practice in art therapies. Art therapy process. Therapeutic relationships. Difference between arts therapy and therapeutic art or art application for the purposes of self-expression.
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Introductory lecture on art therapy, the history of its development in Latvia and the world. The role of art therapies in the health care in Latvia, work with different groups of patients. Art therapist's performance regulating documents. The main ethical and legal policies. Evidence-based importance of practice in art therapies. Art therapy process. Therapeutic relationships. Difference between arts therapy and therapeutic art or art application for the purposes of self-expression.
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Introductory lecture on art therapy, the history of its development in Latvia and the world. The role of art therapies in the health care in Latvia, work with different groups of patients. Art therapist's performance regulating documents. The main ethical and legal policies. Evidence-based importance of practice in art therapies. Art therapy process. Therapeutic relationships. Difference between arts therapy and therapeutic art or art application for the purposes of self-expression.
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Visually plastic art therapy.
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Visually plastic art therapy.
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Visually plastic art therapy.
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Music therapy.
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Music therapy.
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Music therapy.
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Dance movement therapy.
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Dance movement therapy.
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Dance movement therapy.
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Drama therapy.
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Drama therapy.
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Drama therapy.
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Total ECTS (Creditpoints):
3.00
Contact hours:
32 Academic Hours
Final Examination:
Exam (Written)
Bibliography
Required Reading
1.
Mārtinsone, K. (red.). (2021). Mākslu terapija. RaKa: Rīga. (atjaunotais izdevums)
2.
Mārtinsone K. & Krevica, E. (sast.). (2014). Mākslu terapija dažādām klientu / pacientu grupām. Rīga: Rīgas Stradiņa Universitāte.
3.
Mārtinsone, K. (red.). (2010). Mākslu metodes un tehnikas profesionālajā darbībā. Rīga: RaKa.
4.
Mārtinsone, K. (red.). (2010). Pētījumi mākslu terapijā. Rīga: Drukātava.
Additional Reading
1.
Mārtinsone K., Mihailova S., Mihailovs I.J., Majore-Dūšele I., Paipare M. (2008). 2. Mākslu terapija un tās attīstības konteksti (integratīvi eklektiskā pieeja Latvijā). Rīga: Rīgas Stradiņa universitāte.
2.
Karkou, V. & Sanderson, P. (2006). Art Therapies: A Research-Based Map of the Field. London: Elsevier Churchill Livingstone.
Other Information Sources
1.
www.arttherapy.lv
2.
www.dkt.lv
3.
www.muzikasterapija.lv
4.
www.dramasterapija.lv