Substance and Mental Health Work (10cr)

Objectives (course unit)

1. Social worker in a  a mental health and intoxicant work
Student:
-  Is able to identify Social Work approach in a mental health and intoxicant work
-   is able to analyze his/her own professional identity in a mental health and intoxicant work
  2. Customer of substance abuse and mental health problems
   Student:
- is able to identify and face the substance abuse and problem users and their relatives
- is able to help and support clients within their own professional perspective and, if necessary, guide them in the mental health and substance abuse service system
-  knows the basics of service, needs assessment and her/his professional role in it
-  knows the importance of early support and is able to apply early support methods in their work
  3.   Work Orientations and Methods
- Understand the impact of mental disorders and drug addictions on people of different ages and their families
- is able to justify and apply different work orientations in a customer-oriented manner
- is able to develop preventive and structural work in social work
- is able to use methods of motivational interview and early support
- consider the child's perspective and family-oriented work orientation
- know the basics of community care and rehabilitation
- can work in multiprofessional networks
  3. Service system and development
-  Knows the basics of substance abuse and mental health law
- Is familiar with the mental health and substance abuse services system and knows how to guide the customer to the services
- Can critically evaluate customer processes and service system functioning

Content (course unit)

- Risks and disadvantages of problem use and mental disorders in different age groups
- Medicalization and neoliberalism
- Psychiatry, diagnoses and medicines for mental health
- Dialogical support
- Motivational interview
- Mini-intervention and early support
- Substance and mental health in a society
- Rehabilitation and recovery orientation
- Communality in substance abuse and mental health work
- Risks and Disadvantages of Different Drug and Mental Disorders
- Low threshold
- Harm reduction and substitution treatment
- Care Treatment Recommendations
- Peer support, self-help and professional of experience
- Multidisciplinary and professional cooperation

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1-2) (course unit)

- Situational, (imitative) and limited professional skills
- Can identify and define phenomena and basic concepts of substance abuse and mental health work.
- Identify the different dimensions of substance abuse and mental health work

Assessment criteria, good (3-4) (course unit)

- Structured, evaluative and applied professional knowledge
- To structure the different dimensions of substance abuse and mental health work and their implementation in everyday life, using the concepts of social work
- To structure the relationship between phenomena and concepts related to substance abuse and mental health.
- Apply concepts related to substance abuse and mental health to everyday perceptions

Assessment criteria, excellent (5) (course unit)

- Extensive, creative and developing professional expertise
- The assignments demonstrate analytical, diverse and critical thinking
- To have a broad understanding of substance abuse and mental health
- Comprehensive analysis of the different dimensions of substance abuse and mental health work
- Understands the meaning of key concepts and has a broad base and is able to evaluate relationships between different sub-areas of substance abuse and mental health.

Assessment scale

0-5

Assessment criteria - satisfactory (1-2) (Not in use, Look at the Assessment criteria above)

Opiskelija tunnistaa päihde- ja mielenterveystyön peruskäsitteet ja osaa valita ja nimetä erilaisia työmenetelmiä rutiininomaisesti ja ohjattuna. Ottaa vastuun omasta ammatillisesta kasvustaan päihde- ja mielenterveystyöntekijyydestään.

Assessment criteria - good (3-4) (Not in use, Look at the Assessment criteria above)

Opiskelija jäsentää päihde- ja mielenterveystyön ilmiöitä ja käsitteitä toisiinsa. Osaa soveltaa ja laatia suunnitelmia ja ratkaista ongelmia. Osaa valita erilaisia työmenetelmiä ja perustella valinnat. Osaa kuvata ja arvioida ammatillista kasvuaan päihde- ja mielenterveystyöntekijänä

Assessment criteria - excellent (5) (Not in use, Look at the Assessment criteria above)

Opiskelija ymmärtää päihde- ja mielenterveystyön laaja-alaisen kokonaisuuden ja niiden välisen suhteen. Osaa analysoida erilaisia työorientaatiota ja yhdistää ammatilliseen kontekstiin. Opiskelija osaa arvioida erilaisia toimintatapoja ja etsiä ratkaisuvaihtoehtoja asiakastilanteissa ja reflektoi kiitettävästi omaa ammatillista kasvuaan päihde- ja mielenterveystyöntekijänä. Ylin taso sisältää aina alempien tasojen arviointikriteerit.