Individual and community-based school welfareLaajuus (5 cr)

Objective

You know the foundations and objectives of individual and community school welfare.

You become familiar with the methods of school welfare work and are able to apply them in school environments.

You understand the meaning of children's and young people's participation in school welfare work.

You become familiar with the documentation, data protection and privacy issues of school welfare work.

You understand the importance of multi-professional approach in school welfare work.

Content

Why is individual and community welfare work practiced in educational institutions?

What are the objectives of individual and community welfare work?

What methods are used in one-to one school welfare work?

What methods are used in community welfare work?

How can you apply these methods in practice?

How can school welfare work enhance participation among children and young people?

How  do you carry out documentation and take care of data protection and privacy in school welfare work?

Why is school welfare work multi-professional?

Evaluation

Students can
a. use professional vocabulary systematically.
b. look for information in the key information sources of the field.
c. identify interrelated tasks.
d. use the key models and methods of the professional field.
e. work as team members in a goal-oriented way.
f. justify their own actions according to the ethical principles of the professional field.