Development of wellbeing services and influencingLaajuus (5 cr)

Objective

You are able to apply different approaches and methods of development in welfare services.

You understand the meaning of structural social welfare in the development and advocacy of social welfare work.

You are able to apply the methods of societal advocacy in the development of welfare services.

You know the structure of development work in welfare services and familiarise yourself with related projects.

You improve your own skills of reflective and development-oriented practice.

Content

What are the different approaches and methods of development in welfare services and how are they applied?

What is the content of structural social welfare work?

What is the meaning of structural social welfare work in the development and advocacy in the field of social welfare work?

What development targets of welfare services do you find very important? How do you try to improve them by applying the methods of societal advocacy?

What national, regional and local structures and orgnisations support the development of welfare services?

How do the structures of the development of welfare services direct the project work in different levels

What kind of current projects are there in the development of welfare services?

What skills are part of your own reflective and development-oriented practice?

How do you improve your own skills of reflective and development-oriented practice?

Accomplishment methods

Students can

a. use professional vocabulary and concepts in an expert way in different situations.

b. assess information sources critically.

c. work as team members in work-related expert duties and identify and describe the problems of the professional field.

d. assess operations in client, user and target group situations.

e. choose appropriate models and methods according to the purpose and justify these choices.

f. promote teams’ goal-oriented operation.

g. apply critically the ethical principles of the professional field in different situations.