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Professional Activity and Legal Base of Arts Therapies
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:4.00
Study Course Accepted:17.08.2023 13:41:34
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | VPUPK_333 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 4.00 | ECTS: | 6.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Clinical Medicine; Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation | Target Audience: | Medical Services | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Jana Duhovska | ||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.2 | |||||||||
| 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: | Not required. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To develop masters students' professionalism, by creating awareness of the philosophy of the profession, the professional activity in education, health- and social care settings, the collaboration within the multiprofessional team, evidence-based practice, the legal and ethical aspects of the profession, as well as organisation of activity and entrepreuneurship in arts therapies. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Professional activity in art therapy. Philosophical and theoretical basis of the profession, development of profession and educational programs in Latvia and in the world. Professional identity and personality traits of art therapist. Activity and competencies and integration into health care, social care and education systems of art therapy. Multiprofessional and multidisciplinary team work. | Lectures | 2.00 | METC | |||||
| Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 2 | Documents regulating the professional activity of art therapist in Latvia. | Lectures | 1.00 | METC | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | METC | |||||||
| 3 | Evidence based practice in art therapy. Critical appraisal and analysis of information sources. Information literacy in the professional activity of an art therapist. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 4 | Fundamental principles and legal concepts of ethics. Patients' individual and social rights. Ethical guidelines in art therapist's work, ethical dilemmas, and their solution. The use of the art therapists' code of ethics and other regulatory documents in ethical decision-making. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 5 | Approaches in patient care: a significant factor in defining the type of communication. Importance of feedback in effective communication. Opportunities of patient and doctor or health care specialist communication development. Patient compliance and its influencing factors. | Lectures | 1.00 | METC | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | METC | |||||||
| 6 | Legal forms of the entrepreneurship organisation and their regulatory framework. Economic activity and business, the principles of the organisation of private practice in the professional activity. Project in the practice on an art therapist. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 7 | Digital competencies in the professional activity of an art therapist. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 8 | Development and management of projects in the practice of art therapist. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | To independently consolidate the lecture material by reading the indicated sources systematically; to prepare for the examination – test. To analyse in writing one of the given cases in relation to an ethics dilemma, to perform the analysis and presentation of this dilemma. To prepare a video material or a presentation of one of the arts therapies specialisations and present it. 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 grade in this study course is formed cumulatively - from the assignments and tests completed in both study semesters. In the fall semester: 1.1. Test* on the professional activity of an art therapist and its legal issues (25% of the total score), 1.2. Work in groups of 3-4 students, creating a practically oriented work on the professional activity of an art therapist in Latvia (25% of the total evaluation). In the spring semester: 2.1. Test on the topic of Entrepreneurship (25% of the total score), 2.2. Drafting the text of the informed consent (15% of the total grade) 2.3. Up to 10 min. a long presentation (with visualization) on self-help/psychohygiene activities, with the therapist taking care not to burn out (10% of the total score). *Topics for the test: 1. Definition of art therapy, terminology 2. Art therapist education and status in health care 3. Health care system, policy, financing 4. Art therapy: development of the health care profession (experience of Latvia and other countries) 5. Integration of art therapy into health care, social care and education systems 6. Art therapy professional associations 7. Legal forms of business organization and their regulatory framework 8. Economic activity and commercial activity, principles of organization of professional practice 9. Forms of activity of an art therapist and different places of work / practice 10. Objectives and indications of art therapy 11. Competences, skills, duties and tasks of an art therapist 12. Art therapist personality qualities 13. International, European and national law: a) Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine - Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine (Biomedical Convention) b) Medical Treatment Law c) Patients' Rights Act 14. Documents regulating the professional activities of an art therapist: a) Legislation of the Republic of Latvia (Regulations of the Cabinet of Ministers) i. Professional standard ii. Art therapy medical technologies b) Documents of art therapy professional associations i. Code of Ethics ii. Certification regulations 15. Supervision in art therapy | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | 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. | ||||||||
| Skills: | 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. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | 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. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Mākslu terapija. (2011). Red. K. Mārtinsone. Rīga: RaKa. (atkārtotais izdevums) (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| 2 | Biomedicīnas ētika: teorija un prakse. (2006). Red. V. Sīle. Rīga: RSU. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| 3 | Skills for Communicating with Patients (3rd edition). (2013). Silverman, J., Kurtz, S., Draper, J. Oxford: Radcliffe Publishing Ltd, UK. | ||||||||
| 4 | Džounss, R. (2008). Projektu vadības pamati. Praktisks ceļvedis projektu vadībā un izpildē. Rīga: LID. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| 5 | Forands, I. (2004). Biznesa vadības tehnoloģijas. Rīga: Latvijas Izglītības fonds. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Ethical Issues in Art Therapy. (2006). Moon, B. Springfield: Charles C. Thomas Publisher. | ||||||||
| 2 | Counselling Skills for Creative Arts Therapists. (1999). Pelham, G. London: Worth. | ||||||||
| 3 | Supervīzija: teorija, pētijumi, prakse. (2017). Mārtinsone, K., & Mihailova, S. (Sast.). Rīga: Rīgas Stradiņa universitāte | ||||||||
| 4 | Mākslas terapijas izglītības desmit gadi Rīgas Stradiņa universitātē. No ieceres līdz profesijai. (2016). Sast. J.Duhovska un K.Mārtinsone. Rīga: RSU | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | ANO Vispārējā cilvēktiesību deklarācija. | ||||||||
| 2 | Ārstniecības likums. | ||||||||
| 3 | Ārstniecības personu sertifikācijas un resertifikācijas kārtība. | ||||||||
| 4 | Eiropas konvencija par Cilvēktiesībām un Pamatbrīvībām. | ||||||||
| 5 | Mākslas terapeita profesijas standarts | ||||||||
| 6 | Mākslas terapeitu ētikas kodekss. | ||||||||
| 7 | Mākslu terapijas medicīniskās tehnoloģijas. | ||||||||
| 8 | Pacientu tiesību likums. | ||||||||
