Methods of client work in social welfareLaajuus (10 cr)

Objective

You continue developing your competence in client work by applying the approaches and working methods of social welfare work.

You are able to guide and counsel your clients in the service and subsidy systems together with their personal and professional networks as well as with the multidisciplinary team of the practical training place.

You set professional development targets for yourself in order to further develop your ethics, knowledge base and skills and to reflect on your own client work competence as a whole.

Content

What approaches and methods of social welfare work are in use at your practical training place?

How do you apply them in client work?

What services, support and subsidies are your clients eligible for?

How do you guide and counsel your clients in the service and subsidy systems together with their personal and professional networks as well as with the multidisciplinary team of the practical training place?

What personal goals do you set for your further professional development and why?

How do you reflect your targets from the viewpoints of ethics, knowledge base and skills?

Qualifications

Practical training periods must be completed in the order specified in the curriculum. In addition, completing the study module of Client work in social welfare is required before starting this part of practical training.

Accomplishment methods

Students can

c. identify interrelated tasks.

d. work together with clients and target groups and assess operations.

e. use the key models, methods and software of the professional field.

f. work as team members in a goal-oriented way.

g. justify their actions according to the ethical principles of the social sector.