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Family work (5 cr)

Code: SO00AD26-3020

General information


Enrollment
06.04.2022 - 22.04.2022
Registration for the implementation has ended.
Timing
07.11.2022 - 31.12.2022
Implementation has ended.
Number of ECTS credits allocated
5 cr
Local portion
5 cr
RDI portion
1 cr
Mode of delivery
Contact learning
Unit
Department of Social Services and Promotion of Functional Ability
Campus
Kotka Campus
Teaching languages
Finnish
Seats
20 - 50
Degree programmes
Degree Programme in Social Services
Teachers
Johanna Jussila
Tia-Marika Sohlman
Teacher in charge
Johanna Jussila
Groups
SOKT21SP
Social services, full-time studies
Course
SO00AD26
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Objective

You identify family work as a part of family service system and know the legislation concerning family work.
You know different orientations of family work and its working environments.
You know how to work with families with different cultural backgrounds.
You are able to account for the resources and immediate networks of families.
You are able to work systematically and ethically in family work processes together with families.

Content

What is family work as a part of the family service system and what kind of legislation applies to family work?
What kinds of orientations and working environments does family work involve?
How do you work with families from different cultural backgrounds?
How do you consider the resources and the meaning of the immediate network of a family in family work?
How is family work planned and carried out ethically?
What are the stages of the family work?

Evaluation

Students can
use professional vocabulary systematically.
look for information in the key information sources of the field.
identify interrelated tasks.
work together with clients, users and targer groups.
use the key models, methods, software and techniques of the professional field
work as team members in a goal-oriented way.
justify their actions according to the ethical principles of the professional field.

Course material

Vilén Marika, Seppänen Paula, Tapio Nina, Toivanen Riikka (toim.): Kohtaamisia lapsiperheissä - Menetelmiä perhetyöhö

Study forms and methods

Työviikkopohjainen oppimisväylä koostuu lähiopetuksesta, oppimistehtävistä, simulaatioharjoituksista ja toiminnallisesta tentistä.


Työhön integroitu oppimisväylä/Ahot: Mikäli opiskelijalla on työkokemusta perhetyöstä tai korkeakoulutasoisia opintoja, huomioidaan ne HOT- prosessin mukaisesti.
Mahdollisen näytön antamisesta neuvotellaan opettajien kanssa. Työkokemusta tulee olla vähintään kaksi vuotta.

RDI and work-related cooperation

Työelämävierailut/vierailijat

International cooperation

-

Student workload

135 tuntia

Further information

Opetus pitää sisällään läsnäoloa edellyttäviä simulaatio-harjoituksia.

Evaluation scale

1-5

Assessment methods and criteria

Student can (at level 5):
a. use professional vocabulary and concepts proficiently
b. manage appropriate methods of information search
c. carry out interrelated tasks fluently
d. justify their actions in customer situations
e. apply the key methods of the professional field
f. show skills in managing teamwork
e. apply the ethical principles of the professional field according to the situation

Qualifications

Basics and tasks of social work, Ethical social work

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