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Physiotherapy in Mental Health
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:1.00
Study Course Accepted:10.04.2024 09:13:29
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | REK_275 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 1.33 | ECTS: | 2.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Clinical Medicine; Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation | Target Audience: | Sports Trainer; Medicine; Public Health; Medical Services; Social Welfare and Social Work; Dentistry; Rehabilitation; Nursing Science | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Didzis Rozenbergs | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Department of Rehabilitation | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Riga, 26a Anninmuizas boulevard, rk rsu[pnkts]lv, +371 20271291 | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 5 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 10 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 4 | Class Length (academic hours) | 3 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 12 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 22 | ||||||||
| Part-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 5 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 10 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 4 | Class Length (academic hours) | 3 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 12 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 22 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Knowledge and skills acquired in the study courses “Basic psychology in professional activity”, “Classification and evaluation of functioning, disability and health”, “Functional assessment and treatment in Physiotherapy I”, “Physiology”, “Anatomy” and “Basics of human movements and motor control”. | ||||||||
| Objective: | The aim of the study course is to prepare physiotherapy students for work with persons with mental health disorders - to ensure that students will be able to apply standardised assessment tools and clinical judgement skills to assess the impact of mental health disorders on the functioning of a person, to include mitigation of these disorders in therapy objectives and to select appropriate physiotherapy medical technologies to improve the functioning condition of a person and to reduce mental health disorders. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Mental health disorders | Lectures | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| 2 | Assessment of functioning in physiotherapy for persons with mental health disorders | Lectures | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| 3 | Effect of physiotherapy heath technologies on mental health I | Lectures | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| 4 | Effect of physiotherapy heath technologies on mental health II | Lectures | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| 5 | Body-mind interaction | Lectures | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| 6 | Physiotherapeutic evaluation of functioning in mental health disorders I | Classes | 1.00 | METC | |||||
| 7 | Physiotherapeutic evaluation of functioning in mental health disorders II | Classes | 1.00 | METC | |||||
| 8 | Physiotherapy medical technology for reducing functional impairments caused by mental health disorders I | Classes | 1.00 | METC | |||||
| 9 | Physiotherapy medical technology for reducing functional impairments caused by mental health disorders II | Classes | 1.00 | METC | |||||
| Topic Layout (Part-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Mental health disorders | Lectures | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| 2 | Assessment of functioning in physiotherapy for persons with mental health disorders | Lectures | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| 3 | Effect of physiotherapy heath technologies on mental health I | Lectures | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| 4 | Effect of physiotherapy heath technologies on mental health II | Lectures | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| 5 | Body-mind interaction | Lectures | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| 6 | Physiotherapeutic evaluation of functioning in mental health disorders I | Classes | 1.00 | METC | |||||
| 7 | Physiotherapeutic evaluation of functioning in mental health disorders II | Classes | 1.00 | METC | |||||
| 8 | Physiotherapy medical technology for reducing functional impairments caused by mental health disorders I | Classes | 1.00 | METC | |||||
| 9 | Physiotherapy medical technology for reducing functional impairments caused by mental health disorders II | Classes | 1.00 | METC | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | This course proposes 33 hours for self-paced learning to be used for the following purposes: 1) tests; 2) writing reflexions about a lesson for experience; 3) preparing the content for seminars. 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. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | The final assessment of the study course shall be constituted cumulatively: submission of comprehensive reflexions after all classes (10%), passing of test tests after lectures (10%), seminar report (25% for each of two seminars, 50% in total), final examination (30%). | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | 1. Will be able to describe symptoms of mental health disorders (depression, anxiety disorders, eating disorders, sleep disorders, addiction disorders, PTSD, bipolar disorders, psychotic disorders, neural developmental disorders (ASD), behavioural disorders (ADHD)), explaining their relationship to human functioning. 2. Will be able to describe mental health disorders (depression, anxiety disorders, eating disorders, sleep disorders) as adjacent illnesses, explain their relationship to human functioning. 3. Will be able to explain the possibilities, principles and methods for the application of physiotherapy both for the primary and secondary prevention of mental health disorders and for the reduction of functional disorders related to mental health. 4. Will be able to describe screening tools and standardised assessment tools for mental health disorders used in physiotherapy. 5. Will be able to describe concepts used in physiotherapy such as body image and body awareness, stress regulation, educational work, body-mind interaction. | ||||||||
| Skills: | 1. Will be able to choose assessment, prevention, health promotion and physiotherapeutic treatment methods according to the state of functioning, complaints and clinical diagnosis of the patient with mental health disorders. 2. Will be able to apply the chosen mental health assessment methods to obtain meaningful data necessary for the implementation of effective physiotherapy. 3. Will be able to include the results of the assessment in physiotherapist`s clinical reasoning when setting functional diagnosis, therapeutic objectives and making the choice of therapeutic methods to reduce mental health disorders and its caused functional limitations. 4. Will be able to apply physiotherapist medical technologies to achieve the stated therapeutic objectives in case of mental health disorders 5. Will be able to apply physiotherapist medical technologies to achieve the mental health promotion and disorders prevention objectives. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Will be able to choose meaningful and useful assessment, health promotion, disease prevention and prevention of functional disorders medical technologies in physiotherapy, for the restoration and provision of people's full mental health and related functioning. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Gupta S., Bharatha A., Cohall D., Rahman S., et all. Aerobic Exercise and Endocannabinoids: A Narrative Review of Stress Regulation and Brain Reward Systems. Cureus. 2024 Mar 4;16(3):e55468. doi: 10.7759/cureus.55468. PMID: 38440201; PMCID: PMC10910469. | ||||||||
| 2 | Ren J., Xiao H. Exercise for Mental Well-Being: Exploring Neurobiological Advances and Intervention Effects in Depression. Life (Basel). 2023 Jul 4;13(7):1505. doi: 10.3390/life13071505. PMID: 37511879; PMCID: PMC10381534. | ||||||||
| 3 | Sejbuk M., Mirończuk-Chodakowska I., Witkowska A.M. Sleep Quality: A Narrative Review on Nutrition, Stimulants, and Physical Activity as Important Factors. Nutrients. 2022 May 2;14(9):1912. doi: 10.3390/nu14091912. PMID: 35565879; PMCID: PMC9103473. | ||||||||
| 4 | Ribarič S. Physical Exercise, a Potential Non-Pharmacological Intervention for Attenuating Neuroinflammation and Cognitive Decline in Alzheimer's Disease Patients. Int J Mol Sci. 2022 Mar 17;23(6):3245. doi: 10.3390/ijms23063245. PMID: 35328666; PMCID: PMC8952567. | ||||||||
| 5 | Cataldi S., Poli L., Şahin F.N., Patti A., Santacroce L., et all. The Effects of Physical Activity on the Gut Microbiota and the Gut-Brain Axis in Preclinical and Human Models: A Narrative Review. Nutrients. 2022 Aug 11;14(16):3293. doi: 10.3390/nu14163293. PMID: 36014798; PMCID: PMC9413457. | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Clinical exercise physiology /Jonathan K. Ehrman ... [et al.], editors. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, 2009. | ||||||||
| 2 | Utināns, Artūrs. 1963. Cilvēka psihe :tās darbība, funkcionēšanas traucējumi un ārstēšanas iespējas. Rīga: Nacionālais apgāds, 2005. | ||||||||
| 3 | The International Organization of Physical Therapy in Mental Health. Policy Statement: The Role of Physical Therapists Within Mental Health and Psychiatry. 2019 | ||||||||
| 4 | N. Fotso M., Gonzalez N.A., Sanivarapu R.R., Osman U., et all. Association of Physical Activity with the Prevention and Treatment of Depression During the Postpartum Period: A Narrative Review. Cureus. 2023 Aug 31;15(8):e44453. doi: 10.7759/cureus.44453. PMID: 37791151; PMCID: PMC10544133. | ||||||||
| 5 | Zhang Y., Jiang X. The effects of physical activity and exercise therapy on frail elderly depression: A narrative review. Medicine (Baltimore). 2023 Aug 25;102(34):e34908. doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000034908. PMID: 37653827; PMCID: PMC10470792. | ||||||||
| 6 | Zisopoulou T., Varvogli L. Stress Management Methods in Children and Adolescents: Past, Present, and Future. Horm Res Paediatr. 2023;96(1):97-107. doi: 10.1159/000526946. Epub 2022 Sep 12. PMID: 36096110. | ||||||||
