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Psychologist's Professional Work
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:15.00
Study Course Accepted:14.08.2023 08:37:29
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | VPUPK_110 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Psychology; General Psychology | Target Audience: | Psychology | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Jeļena Koļesņikova | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Department of Health Psychology and Paedagogy | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Riga, 5 J. Asara Street, vppk rsu[pnkts]lv, +37167061587 | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 6 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 12 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 6 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 12 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 24 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Knowledge acquired during the Bachelor’s degree programme related to the psychologist’s professional activity and ethics. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To deepen the students’ understanding of the legal and ethical framework for the psychologist’s activity and to develop ethical sensitivity and skills needed for solution of ethical dilemmas, including documenting own activities. To develop understanding of entrepreneurship in the profession of a psychologist. To develop skills of applying legal and ethical principles in case studies of dilemmas in psychology. To develop understanding of the responsibility of a psychologist in solving legal and ethical issues. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Introduction | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Resolving ethical dilemmas in various professional fields of a psychologist: 1. Clinical and health psychology 2. Occupational psychology 3. Educational psychology 4. Military psychology 5. Consulting psychology 6. Forensic psychology | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 3.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 3 | Tax legislation and basic principles of financial accounting. Innovations in business management (judicial and extra-judicial settlement of disputes and controversies, etc.). Entrepreneurship in the profession of a psychologist. Principles of private practice of professional practice. Fundamentals of project development and management. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 4 | Legal regulation of the psychologist’s professional activity: Law of Psychologists and rules of psychologists. Personal data protection and privacy. Labour and labour protection norms in psychology. Certification and supervision of psychologists. Documents of professional activity of psychologists. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | 1. Students revise the lecture material independently, they read the given sources systematically and regularly, prepare for and take part in discussions. 2. Conduct an interview: independently conduct an interview and prepare a presentation (presentation – PowerPoint/Pecha Kucha) about the professional activity of a psychologist. 3. At the end of the study course, provide feedback (fill in the form) about the study course. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | 1. Conduct an interview about the professional activity of a psychologist (60%). 2. Prepare a presentation based on the prepared report and present it to the student group (PechaKucha) (40%). | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Students describe the principles of the legal framework for professional activity, explain the professional activity using regulating documentation (including requirements of labour and labour protection, fire protection, personal data protection, requirements of regulatory enactments and principles of private life; basic principles of professional and general ethics). Describe the ethical dilemmas of a psychologist's professional performance. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Students apply their knowledge to analyse the Code of Ethics and legal regulations and to deal with ethical issues. Students apply the steps and ethical sensitiveness in solution of ethical dilemmas. Students demonstrate and explain the limits of their professional competence. Students explain to the representatives of their own and other professions their professional activities, goals and tasks, opportunities and limitations. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Students comply with the regulation of the professional activity and the Code of Ethics to organise their practical work and to handle the existent situations within the practice. They adhere to the Code of Ethics for Psychologists and regulatory documents regulating the field of psychology. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Donelson Forsyth. (2020). Making Moral Judgments : Psychological Perspectives on Morality, Ethics, and Decision-Making. Routledge. eBook Open Access (OA) Collection (EBSCOhost) | ||||||||
| 2 | Elsiņa I., Martinsone B., Mihailovs I. J. (2022). Psihologa profesionālās darbības ētika: Teorētiskais pamats un praktiskās vadlīnijas. – Rīga: izdevniecība SIA “Drukatava”, , 76 lpp. ISBN 978-9934-23-638-9 | ||||||||
| 3 | Mārtinsone K. un Girgensone B (red.) (2018). Psihologa profesijas būtība, profesionālās darbības raksturojums. Psihologu profesionālā darbība Latvijā: saturs, organizācija, regulējums. Rīga: Tiesu namu aģentūra (lpp. 368). | ||||||||
| 4 | Ministru kabineta noteikumi Nr. 301. Psihologu noteikumi. Publicēts: Latvijas Vēstnesis, 106, 31.05.2018. OP numurs: 2018/106.3 Pieejams no: https://likumi.lv/ta/id/299322-psihologu-noteikumi | ||||||||
| 5 | Psihologu likums. | ||||||||
| 6 | Silvia L. Mazzula, P., & Pamela LiVecchi, P. (2018). Ethics for Counselors : Integrating Counseling and Psychology Standards. Springer Publishing Company. | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | American Psychological Association. (2017). Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct. Available from: http://www.apa.org/ethics/code/index.aspx# | ||||||||
| 2 | Girgensone, B., Mihailovs I.J. (2016) Terminu skaidrojošā vārdnīca ģimenes un bērnu tiesībās. Rīga: Drukātava. | ||||||||
| 3 | Ezra E. Griffith. (2017). Ethics Challenges in Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology Practice. Columbia University Press. | ||||||||
| 4 | EFPA Meta-Code of Ethics. | ||||||||
| 5 | Izglītības kvalitātes valsts dienests. Psihologu sertifikācijas padomes dokumenti. Pieejams no: https://ikvd.gov.lv/psihologiem/ | ||||||||
| 6 | Saeima ir pieņēmusi un Valsts prezidents izsludina šādu likumu: Bērnu tiesību aizsardzības likums. Publicēts: Latvijas Vēstnesis, 199/200. Pieejams no: https://likumi.lv/doc.php?id=49096 | ||||||||
| 7 | Saeima ir pieņēmusi un Valsts prezidents izsludina šādu likumu: Psihologu likums. Publicēts: Latvijas Vēstnesis, 75, 12.04.2017. OP numurs: 2017/75.1 Pieejams no: https://likumi.lv/doc.php?id=290115 | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | Canadian Code of Ethics for Psychologists | ||||||||
| 2 | British Journal of Health Psychology | ||||||||
| 3 | Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings | ||||||||
| 4 | Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology | ||||||||
| 5 | Journal of Military Psychology | ||||||||
| 6 | Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology | ||||||||
| 7 | Journal of Educational Psychology | ||||||||
| 8 | Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology | ||||||||
