Intoxicant and mental health work (5 cr)

Objective

You know how to recognize the goals, activities and opportunities of preventive work relating to intoxicant use and mental health. You are able to describe and to search for information about children’s and young people’s mental health and intoxicant use. You know how to act as a youth worker in the service network of work with children’s and adolescents’ intoxicant use and mental health.

Content

What is children’s and young people’s mental health and intoxicant-free life based on? What are the most common disorders of children’s and young people’s intoxicant use and mental and the relating methods of aid? What kind of methods promote children’s and young people’s mental health and intoxicant free lifestyles and how can they be affected? With what kind of work practices can youth workers support the prevention of children’s and young people's intoxicant use and mental harm as well as their need and readiness for change?

Study forms and methods

Työviikkopohjainen oppimisväylä:
Itsenäisesti tai ryhmässä tapahtuvaa työskentelyä, Luento, Oppimistehtävän tekeminen

Opintoja nopeuttava oppimisväylä:
Sovitaan erikseen vastuuopettajan kanssa

Työhön integroitu oppimisväylä:
Itsenäiset, verkon kautta suoritettavat oppimistehtävät. Avaimen verkkokurssille saa vastuuopettajalta

Assessment criteria, good (3)

b. You know how to critically use a range of information on the intoxicant use and mental health of children and the youth. e. You are able to choose and justify the variety of methods used in the workwith intoxicant use and mental health.  f. You know how to act as a youth worker in different teams and practical activities of intoxicant use and mental health work.