Development of wellbeing services and influencingLaajuus (5 cr)

Objective

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

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

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

You know the structure of the development work in welfare services and familiarize your self with projects based on it.

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

Content

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

What is the content of structural a social work?

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

What flaw of welfare services you find very important? How you try to improve it by applying the methods of societal advocacy?

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

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

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

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

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

Evaluation

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 customer/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.