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About Study Course

Credit points / ECTS:2 / 3
Course supervisor:Kristīne Vende-Kotova
Study type:Full time
Course level:Bachelor
Target audience:Marketing and Advertising; Nursing Science; Political Science; Sociology; Sports Trainer; Life Science; Civil and Military Defense; Pharmacy; Dentistry; Person and Property Defence; Health Management; Pedagogy; Rehabilitation; Information and Communication Science; Social Welfare and Social Work; Psychology; Biology; Social Anthropology; Public Health; Medical Services; Law; Management Science; Communication Science; Clinical Pharmacy; Medical Technologies; Business Management; Juridical Science; Medicine
Language:Latvian
Branch of science:Clinical Medicine; Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation

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.

Prerequisites

Not required.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

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

Chooses the most appropriate collaboration possibilities with an art therapist, applies the methods and techniques of arts therapy within their competencies.

Competence

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.

Study course planning

Planning period:Year 2025, Spring semester
Study programmeStudy semesterProgram levelStudy course categoryLecturersSchedule
Elective courses, C-kursi 2Free choice