Child Welfare and Family WorkLaajuus (8 cr)

Objectives

1. Bachelor of Social Services in Child Welfare Services
Students
- are able to analyse their individual and professional identity in child welfare services
2. Child and Family as Clients of Child Welfare Services
Students
- are able to notice and stabilize crisis and trauma reactions as well as interactional problems in the family
- can analyse the child and family’s experiences on being a client of child welfare services and take them into account in client work
- can apply child and family-oriented approach in family work
3. Methods and Approaches to Work in Interaction with Clients and Institutional Care
Students
- can apply different methods and approaches to work with clients
- can analyse everyday life in institutional care and apply different methods and approaches to work there
4. Phenomena and Special Issues in Child Welfare
Students
- can describe phenomena and special issues related to child welfare
- can analyse the significance of phenomena and special issues in client relationships, everyday life, and own work
5. Advanced Knowledge of Legislation, Service system and Client process
Students
- can evaluate client relationships and phenomena in child welfare from the perspective of child welfare legislation, service system, and client process

Content

Bachelor of Social Services in Child Welfare Services
- Own upbringing and educational history, pedagogical awareness, values, ethics, attitude, courage, experiences of workers, boundaries of professionalism, well-being at work, task structure, pair work, multi-professional cooperation
Child and Family as Clients of Child Welfare Services
- Crisis process, taking trauma history into account, family interaction, vicarious traumatization
- Experiences of children and parents on being clients
- Child and family-centred approach, family work, family foster care
Methods and Approaches to Work in Interaction with Clients and Institutional Care
- Goal-orientation, methodicalness, assessment, client-specific plan, everyday life, dialogue, community, being a member of a work community and a multi-professional team, social pedagogy
- Care and education in institutional care
Phenomena and Special Issues in Child Welfare
- Mental health and substance abuse work, violence and sexual abuse, multi-culturalism, developmental disability/special education, parent’s incarceration and the child, handling aggressive clients, entrepreneurship in child welfare, other topical issue
Advanced Knowledge of Legislation, Service System and Client Process
- Child welfare legislation, other applicable laws, service system, client process

Further information

KESÄOPINTOINA 2014 VOI SUORITTAA 1 OP. Opintojakso on kohdistettu pääsääntöisesti sosiaalialan kolmannen vuoden opiskelijoille.