Mākslas terapeita profesionālās identitātes pārmaiņu raksturojums Covid-19 pandēmijas un digitalizācijas laikā

The aim of this master thesis was to investigate the characteristics of the changes in the professional identity of art therapists during the Covid-19 pandemic and digitisation. Research questions: What are the characteristics of the changes in the individual domain of the art therapist's professional identity during the Covid-19 pandemic and digitisation? What are the characteristics of the changes in the relational domain of the art therapist's professional identity during the Covid-19 pandemic and digitisation? What is the pattern of change in the collective domain of the art therapist's professional identity during the Covid-19 pandemic and digitisation? What is the pattern of change in the visual identity of the art therapist's professional identity during the Covid-19 pandemic and digitisation? Research method: formulation and definition of survey questions, relevance and comprehensibility assessment in the first stage of the research, participants: expert panel (N = 2), refinement of survey questions, design. "Survey on the changes in the professional identity of art therapists due to digitisation and the Covid-19 pandemic" online at www.visidati.lv. In the second stage, the research was carried out, data were collected using the website www.visidati.lv, data analysis method: descriptive statistics, inferential statistics. Participants: art therapists (N = 33), (visual and plastic arts therapists n = 10, dance and movement therapists n = 7, music therapists n = 11, drama therapists n = 5). Phase 3: Focus group discussion (FGD) and visual method preparation phase, FGD questions and visual method manual were developed, relevance and comprehensibility assessed (expert panel N = 2), FGD and visual method manual refined. Prior to the FGD, individual invitations to participate in the FGD were sent out and informed consent obtained from participants. In the fourth phase of the study, four FGDs were conducted per specialisation, N = 20 art therapists (visual plastic arts therapists n = 6, dance and movement therapists n = 5, music therapists n = 5, drama therapists n = 4). Data analysis method: thematic analysis (Braun&Clarke, 2006). In the fifth step, the FGD on the website www.isketch.io asked to draw a picture using the brush function, choosing black, with a continuous line, describing the "Change of the art therapist during the Covid-19 pandemic and digitalization", to give the drawing a title and to briefly describe it in a way of their choice. Download the drawing and send it to the researcher's email [email protected]. Method of data analysis: art therapy formal elements scale (FETAS, Gantt, Tabone, 1998, adapted into Latvian by Ciganovska, 2012, Vejde-Nedviga, 2012), thematic analysis (Braun& Clarke, 2006) Study results: The characteristics of changes in the professional identity of art therapists in the individual, relational and collective domains highlighted mutually contradictory changes in relation to online continuing edu