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Mental Retardation
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:4.00
Study Course Accepted:08.03.2021 14:20:01
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | REK_076 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 1.00 | ECTS: | 1.50 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Clinical Medicine; Health Care | Target Audience: | Rehabilitation; Medical Services | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Ieva Rugina | ||||||||
| 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) | 0 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 0 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 0 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 4 | Class Length (academic hours) | 4 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 16 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 16 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Psychology, psychiatry, pediatrics, occupational therapy. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To gain knowledge about occupational therapy process with clients who have intellectual disabilities. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Intellectual disability in adulthood – interpretations of the concept. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Degrees of intellectual development delay, their characteristics, occupational performance difficulties. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Habilitation and rehabilitation strategies. The normalization principle. Group work presentations. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Occupational therapy techniques in working with people with severe intellectual disabilities. Attendance of "Latvian Movement for Independent living" day care centre for people with severe impairment. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Group work presentation; clinical case analysis and presentation. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Group work presentation, participation in case study analysis. Final test – written theoretical test including case analysis. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | On successful course completion student is able to recognise and define mental retardation, is able to name and describe the degree of intellectual development delay. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Student is able to identify and to clarify the occupational therapy tactics in dealing with the target group, is able to apply Gunnar Kylen "Understanding" theory, as well as to use the acquired knowledge in occupational therapy practice. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Student is able to formulate and analyse a person's with mental retardation occupational performance difficulties, is able to develop and explain OT intervention plan. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Occupational Therapy in Mental Health : a Vision for Participation / editors, Catana Brown, Virginia C. Stoffel ; associate editor, Jaime Phillip Munõz. Philadelphia : F.A. Davis Company, [2019] Section 2, page 117 | ||||||||
| 2 | Jennifer Creek. Occupational therapy and Mental Health. Churchill Livingstone. 6th edition, 2022. Learning Disabilities: 415 – 431. | ||||||||
| 3 | Dzīvesprasmju apmācība personām ar garīgās attīstības traucējumiem: metodiskais līdzeklis / Līga Kļaviņa, Gita Pavloviča. Rīga: Profesionālās pilnveides un supervīzijas centrs "Aisma", 2016 | ||||||||
| 4 | Skolēnu ar vidēji smagiem un smagiem garīgās attīstības traucējumiem praktiskās darbības pieredzes veidošanās speciālajā internātpamatskolā: monogrāfija / Ilga Prudņikova; Rēzekne, 2012. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | „Dzīves apstākļu normalizēšana personām ar garīga rakstura un citiem funkciju traucējumiem”. K.Grunevalda red., Velku fonds, 2003. | ||||||||
| 2 | Cilvēku ar intelektuālās attīstības traucējumiem tiesības, Valsts ziņojums. Latvija, 2005. (elektroniskā versija). | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | K.Goransone. Kā attīstās sapratne par realitāti? Rasa ABC, 2001 | ||||||||
