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Laura Pirsko, Dr. Psych.Assistant Professor | |
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Assistant Professor Laura Pirsko, Dr. psych., teaches courses on child developmental disorders, psychotherapy with children, parent group management, and leads supervised practice. Has obtained a professional certificate of a family psychotherapist, obtained a certificate in Systemic Supervision, also works as a psychologist and supervisor at the Centre against Violence "Dardedze", conducts seminars for teachers, orphanage educators, police officers, judges, etc., on working with children who have suffered from violence. He is the Chairman of the Board of the Latvian Association of Clinical Psychologists and the Chairman of the Board of the Latvian Association of Psychologists.
Support and educational programs for parents
Psychological research and methods
Psychological Research II
Theories and methods of psychotherapy for children
Psychology of violence, human sexuality, the impact of virtual environments, adaptation of psychological research tools. Theoretical and practical knowledge in the field of clinical psychology, competence to conduct theoretical and practical research in various environments, using various research methods, as well as in cooperation with other scientific fields.
Clinical psychology; psychology of violence; attachment theory; child-parent relationships; family psychology; human sexuality, self-harming behavior, body image development, eating disorders, adaptive/maladaptive schemas, intervention programs, virtual reality.
Zomerfelde, G., & Pirsko, L. (2022). Childhood trauma, trauma symptoms, family fat talk in relation to adolescent eating behavior. BALTIC JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY, 23(1/2), 106–127. doi.org/10.22364/bjp.23.06
Pirsko, L. (2008). Children’s narrative attachment representations in relation to experience of abuse [Dataset]. In PsycEXTRA Dataset. https://doi.org/10.1037/e602602012-008