Practical Training: Methods of Empowerment in Social WorkLaajuus (10 cr)
Code: BE00BS13
Objective
The student is trained to examine the client's needs, the client's equal status and the clientele from the perspective of influential, participatory and discriminatory structures and processes in society. He / she is able to identify discriminatory operating practices, system vulnerabilities and service blind spots that have a detrimental effect on the customer's position and involvement. The student is able to implement activities that support and empower the client in an resource-based way using psychosocial, functional, creative, communal, structural or empowering methods of social work. The student is able to choose methods in a way that suits the needs, situation and resources of the client or client group. He / she is able to take into account the boundary conditions and resources of the organization when planning empowering activities. The student is able to implement a process that promotes the inclusion and empowerment of a client or client group, which includes planning, implementation and evaluation in social work. He has the ability to acquire and produce information about the social work to be taken over. He / she is able to assess his / her own activities and professional development needs as well as the direction of his / her own career planning.
Content
- empowering and resource-driven activities that strengthen the customer and involve the customer
- assessing the client's position and clientship from a structural and empowering perspective
- planning, implementation and evaluation of a process designed to promote client engagement and empowerment
- evaluation and development of one's action
Qualifications
Students must have passed one of the following study courses: Structural Social Work, Community-oriented Social Work, Empowering social work or Communication and Media in Social Work.
Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)
X
Assessment criteria, approved/failed
Pass:
Students have gained experience of client-centred action designed to promote client engagement. Students have learnt to examine clients' needs and position and clientship from the perspectives of social structures and processes. They are able to recognise practices, frinze areas and dead zones in the services and systems, which impair clients' position and engagement. Students are able to implement a variety of empowering activities which promote client engagement, using psychosocial, activity-based, creative, community-based, structural and empowering methods. Students know how to select methods that best suit the clients' or groups' needs, situation and resources. When planning activities, students take into account the boundary conditions and resources of the organization. Students have gained experience of planning, implementing and evaluating a process to promote client engagement and empowerment in a social work setting or in a project context. Students know how to acquire and produce information. They evaluate their action, professional development needs and career planning.
Materials
materials of preceding theoretical study courses
Further information
The course can be taken in English language
Enrollment
22.04.2024 - 28.04.2024
Timing
02.12.2024 - 02.05.2025
Credits
10 op
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Degree programmes
- Bachelor of Social Services
Teachers
- Anu Aalto
- Marja-Liisa Saariaho
- Pia-Christine Sainio
Student groups
-
MSOS23KDegree Programme in Social Services
-
SOS23A
Objective
The student is trained to examine the client's needs, the client's equal status and the clientele from the perspective of influential, participatory and discriminatory structures and processes in society. He / she is able to identify discriminatory operating practices, system vulnerabilities and service blind spots that have a detrimental effect on the customer's position and involvement. The student is able to implement activities that support and empower the client in an resource-based way using psychosocial, functional, creative, communal, structural or empowering methods of social work. The student is able to choose methods in a way that suits the needs, situation and resources of the client or client group. He / she is able to take into account the boundary conditions and resources of the organization when planning empowering activities. The student is able to implement a process that promotes the inclusion and empowerment of a client or client group, which includes planning, implementation and evaluation in social work. He has the ability to acquire and produce information about the social work to be taken over. He / she is able to assess his / her own activities and professional development needs as well as the direction of his / her own career planning.
Content
- empowering and resource-driven activities that strengthen the customer and involve the customer
- assessing the client's position and clientship from a structural and empowering perspective
- planning, implementation and evaluation of a process designed to promote client engagement and empowerment
- evaluation and development of one's action
Location and time
-
Materials
-
Teaching methods
Orientation, practical training, learning assignment, counselling, poster seminar.
Employer connections
Practical training 7 weeks
Exam schedules
Does not include exam.
International connections
Studying in international group.
Completion alternatives
-
Student workload
Practical training time is 270 hours.
Content scheduling
-
Further information
Students must have passed one of the following study courses: Structural Social Work, Community-oriented Social Work, Empowering social work or Communication and Media in Social Work.
Evaluation scale
Passed/failed
Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)
X
Assessment criteria, approved/failed
Pass:
Students have gained experience of client-centred action designed to promote client engagement. Students have learnt to examine clients' needs and position and clientship from the perspectives of social structures and processes. They are able to recognise practices, frinze areas and dead zones in the services and systems, which impair clients' position and engagement. Students are able to implement a variety of empowering activities which promote client engagement, using psychosocial, activity-based, creative, community-based, structural and empowering methods. Students know how to select methods that best suit the clients' or groups' needs, situation and resources. When planning activities, students take into account the boundary conditions and resources of the organization. Students have gained experience of planning, implementing and evaluating a process to promote client engagement and empowerment in a social work setting or in a project context. Students know how to acquire and produce information. They evaluate their action, professional development needs and career planning.
Assessment methods and criteria
The evaluation is based on the completion of training and learning assignments.
Qualifications
Students must have passed one of the following study courses: Structural Social Work, Community-oriented Social Work, Empowering social work or Communication and Media in Social Work.
Further information
The course can be taken in English language
Enrollment
22.04.2024 - 28.04.2024
Timing
26.08.2024 - 15.12.2024
Credits
10 op
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Degree programmes
- Bachelor of Social Services
Teachers
- Anu Aalto
- Marja-Liisa Saariaho
- Pia-Christine Sainio
Student groups
-
SOS22C
-
SOS22B
Objective
The student is trained to examine the client's needs, the client's equal status and the clientele from the perspective of influential, participatory and discriminatory structures and processes in society. He / she is able to identify discriminatory operating practices, system vulnerabilities and service blind spots that have a detrimental effect on the customer's position and involvement. The student is able to implement activities that support and empower the client in an resource-based way using psychosocial, functional, creative, communal, structural or empowering methods of social work. The student is able to choose methods in a way that suits the needs, situation and resources of the client or client group. He / she is able to take into account the boundary conditions and resources of the organization when planning empowering activities. The student is able to implement a process that promotes the inclusion and empowerment of a client or client group, which includes planning, implementation and evaluation in social work. He has the ability to acquire and produce information about the social work to be taken over. He / she is able to assess his / her own activities and professional development needs as well as the direction of his / her own career planning.
Content
- empowering and resource-driven activities that strengthen the customer and involve the customer
- assessing the client's position and clientship from a structural and empowering perspective
- planning, implementation and evaluation of a process designed to promote client engagement and empowerment
- evaluation and development of one's action
Teaching methods
Orientation, practical training, learning assignment, counselling, poster seminar
Employer connections
Practical training 7 weeks
Exam schedules
-
International connections
Studying in international group
Completion alternatives
-
Student workload
Practical training time is 270 hours.
Further information
Students must have passed one of the following study courses: Structural Social Work, Community-oriented Social Work, Empowering social work or Communication and Media in Social Work.
Evaluation scale
Passed/failed
Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)
X
Assessment criteria, approved/failed
Pass:
Students have gained experience of client-centred action designed to promote client engagement. Students have learnt to examine clients' needs and position and clientship from the perspectives of social structures and processes. They are able to recognise practices, frinze areas and dead zones in the services and systems, which impair clients' position and engagement. Students are able to implement a variety of empowering activities which promote client engagement, using psychosocial, activity-based, creative, community-based, structural and empowering methods. Students know how to select methods that best suit the clients' or groups' needs, situation and resources. When planning activities, students take into account the boundary conditions and resources of the organization. Students have gained experience of planning, implementing and evaluating a process to promote client engagement and empowerment in a social work setting or in a project context. Students know how to acquire and produce information. They evaluate their action, professional development needs and career planning.
Qualifications
Students must have passed one of the following study courses: Structural Social Work, Community-oriented Social Work, Empowering social work or Communication and Media in Social Work.
Further information
The course can be taken in English language
Enrollment
17.04.2023 - 20.04.2023
Timing
04.12.2023 - 03.05.2024
Credits
10 op
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Seats
12 - 85
Degree programmes
- Bachelor of Social Services
Teachers
- Asta Pohjola
- Anu Aalto
- Marja-Liisa Saariaho
- Pia-Christine Sainio
- Milka Volanto
Student groups
-
SOS22A
-
MSOS22K
-
MSOS22SV
Objective
The student is trained to examine the client's needs, the client's equal status and the clientele from the perspective of influential, participatory and discriminatory structures and processes in society. He / she is able to identify discriminatory operating practices, system vulnerabilities and service blind spots that have a detrimental effect on the customer's position and involvement. The student is able to implement activities that support and empower the client in an resource-based way using psychosocial, functional, creative, communal, structural or empowering methods of social work. The student is able to choose methods in a way that suits the needs, situation and resources of the client or client group. He / she is able to take into account the boundary conditions and resources of the organization when planning empowering activities. The student is able to implement a process that promotes the inclusion and empowerment of a client or client group, which includes planning, implementation and evaluation in social work. He has the ability to acquire and produce information about the social work to be taken over. He / she is able to assess his / her own activities and professional development needs as well as the direction of his / her own career planning.
Content
- empowering and resource-driven activities that strengthen the customer and involve the customer
- assessing the client's position and clientship from a structural and empowering perspective
- planning, implementation and evaluation of a process designed to promote client engagement and empowerment
- evaluation and development of one's action
Location and time
-
Materials
-
Teaching methods
Orientation, practical training, learning assignment, counselling, poster seminar.
Employer connections
Practical training 7 weeks
Exam schedules
Does not include exam.
International connections
Studying in international group.
Completion alternatives
-
Student workload
Practical training time is 270 hours.
Content scheduling
-
Further information
Students must have passed one of the following study courses: Structural Social Work, Community-oriented Social Work, Empowering social work or Communication and Media in Social Work.
Evaluation scale
Passed/failed
Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)
X
Assessment criteria, approved/failed
Pass:
Students have gained experience of client-centred action designed to promote client engagement. Students have learnt to examine clients' needs and position and clientship from the perspectives of social structures and processes. They are able to recognise practices, frinze areas and dead zones in the services and systems, which impair clients' position and engagement. Students are able to implement a variety of empowering activities which promote client engagement, using psychosocial, activity-based, creative, community-based, structural and empowering methods. Students know how to select methods that best suit the clients' or groups' needs, situation and resources. When planning activities, students take into account the boundary conditions and resources of the organization. Students have gained experience of planning, implementing and evaluating a process to promote client engagement and empowerment in a social work setting or in a project context. Students know how to acquire and produce information. They evaluate their action, professional development needs and career planning.
Assessment methods and criteria
The evaluation is based on the completion of training and learning assignments.
Qualifications
Students must have passed one of the following study courses: Structural Social Work, Community-oriented Social Work, Empowering social work or Communication and Media in Social Work.
Further information
The course can be taken in English language
Enrollment
17.04.2023 - 20.04.2023
Timing
28.08.2023 - 15.12.2023
Credits
10 op
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Seats
12 - 60
Degree programmes
- Bachelor of Social Services
Teachers
- Asta Pohjola
- Anu Aalto
- Marja-Liisa Saariaho
- Pia-Christine Sainio
Student groups
-
SOS21B
-
SOS21C
Objective
The student is trained to examine the client's needs, the client's equal status and the clientele from the perspective of influential, participatory and discriminatory structures and processes in society. He / she is able to identify discriminatory operating practices, system vulnerabilities and service blind spots that have a detrimental effect on the customer's position and involvement. The student is able to implement activities that support and empower the client in an resource-based way using psychosocial, functional, creative, communal, structural or empowering methods of social work. The student is able to choose methods in a way that suits the needs, situation and resources of the client or client group. He / she is able to take into account the boundary conditions and resources of the organization when planning empowering activities. The student is able to implement a process that promotes the inclusion and empowerment of a client or client group, which includes planning, implementation and evaluation in social work. He has the ability to acquire and produce information about the social work to be taken over. He / she is able to assess his / her own activities and professional development needs as well as the direction of his / her own career planning.
Content
- empowering and resource-driven activities that strengthen the customer and involve the customer
- assessing the client's position and clientship from a structural and empowering perspective
- planning, implementation and evaluation of a process designed to promote client engagement and empowerment
- evaluation and development of one's action
Teaching methods
Orientation, practical training, learning assignment, counselling, poster seminar
Employer connections
Practical training 7 weeks
Exam schedules
-
International connections
Studying in international group
Completion alternatives
-
Student workload
Practical training time is 270 hours.
Further information
Students must have passed one of the following study courses: Structural Social Work, Community-oriented Social Work, Empowering social work or Communication and Media in Social Work.
Evaluation scale
Passed/failed
Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)
X
Assessment criteria, approved/failed
Pass:
Students have gained experience of client-centred action designed to promote client engagement. Students have learnt to examine clients' needs and position and clientship from the perspectives of social structures and processes. They are able to recognise practices, frinze areas and dead zones in the services and systems, which impair clients' position and engagement. Students are able to implement a variety of empowering activities which promote client engagement, using psychosocial, activity-based, creative, community-based, structural and empowering methods. Students know how to select methods that best suit the clients' or groups' needs, situation and resources. When planning activities, students take into account the boundary conditions and resources of the organization. Students have gained experience of planning, implementing and evaluating a process to promote client engagement and empowerment in a social work setting or in a project context. Students know how to acquire and produce information. They evaluate their action, professional development needs and career planning.
Qualifications
Students must have passed one of the following study courses: Structural Social Work, Community-oriented Social Work, Empowering social work or Communication and Media in Social Work.
Further information
The course can be taken in English language
Enrollment
19.04.2022 - 21.04.2022
Timing
09.01.2023 - 10.05.2023
Credits
10 op
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Degree programmes
- Bachelor of Social Services
Teachers
- Marja-Liisa Saariaho
- Pia-Christine Sainio
Student groups
-
SOS21A
-
MSOS21K
Objective
The student is trained to examine the client's needs, the client's equal status and the clientele from the perspective of influential, participatory and discriminatory structures and processes in society. He / she is able to identify discriminatory operating practices, system vulnerabilities and service blind spots that have a detrimental effect on the customer's position and involvement. The student is able to implement activities that support and empower the client in an resource-based way using psychosocial, functional, creative, communal, structural or empowering methods of social work. The student is able to choose methods in a way that suits the needs, situation and resources of the client or client group. He / she is able to take into account the boundary conditions and resources of the organization when planning empowering activities. The student is able to implement a process that promotes the inclusion and empowerment of a client or client group, which includes planning, implementation and evaluation in social work. He has the ability to acquire and produce information about the social work to be taken over. He / she is able to assess his / her own activities and professional development needs as well as the direction of his / her own career planning.
Content
- empowering and resource-driven activities that strengthen the customer and involve the customer
- assessing the client's position and clientship from a structural and empowering perspective
- planning, implementation and evaluation of a process designed to promote client engagement and empowerment
- evaluation and development of one's action
Location and time
Practical training 7 weeks
Teaching methods
Orientation, practical training, learning assignment, counselling, poster seminar
Employer connections
Practical training 7 weeks
Completion alternatives
Studying in international group
Further information
Students must have passed one of the following study courses: Structural Social Work, Community-oriented Social Work, Empowering social work or Communication and Media in Social Work.
Evaluation scale
1-5
Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)
X
Assessment criteria, approved/failed
Pass:
Students have gained experience of client-centred action designed to promote client engagement. Students have learnt to examine clients' needs and position and clientship from the perspectives of social structures and processes. They are able to recognise practices, frinze areas and dead zones in the services and systems, which impair clients' position and engagement. Students are able to implement a variety of empowering activities which promote client engagement, using psychosocial, activity-based, creative, community-based, structural and empowering methods. Students know how to select methods that best suit the clients' or groups' needs, situation and resources. When planning activities, students take into account the boundary conditions and resources of the organization. Students have gained experience of planning, implementing and evaluating a process to promote client engagement and empowerment in a social work setting or in a project context. Students know how to acquire and produce information. They evaluate their action, professional development needs and career planning.
Qualifications
Students must have passed one of the following study courses: Structural Social Work, Community-oriented Social Work, Empowering social work or Communication and Media in Social Work.
Further information
The course can be taken in English language
Enrollment
19.04.2022 - 21.04.2022
Timing
29.08.2022 - 16.12.2022
Credits
10 op
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Degree programmes
- Bachelor of Social Services
Teachers
- Marja-Liisa Saariaho
- Pia-Christine Sainio
- Milka Volanto
Student groups
-
SOS20B
-
SOS20C
Objective
The student is trained to examine the client's needs, the client's equal status and the clientele from the perspective of influential, participatory and discriminatory structures and processes in society. He / she is able to identify discriminatory operating practices, system vulnerabilities and service blind spots that have a detrimental effect on the customer's position and involvement. The student is able to implement activities that support and empower the client in an resource-based way using psychosocial, functional, creative, communal, structural or empowering methods of social work. The student is able to choose methods in a way that suits the needs, situation and resources of the client or client group. He / she is able to take into account the boundary conditions and resources of the organization when planning empowering activities. The student is able to implement a process that promotes the inclusion and empowerment of a client or client group, which includes planning, implementation and evaluation in social work. He has the ability to acquire and produce information about the social work to be taken over. He / she is able to assess his / her own activities and professional development needs as well as the direction of his / her own career planning.
Content
- empowering and resource-driven activities that strengthen the customer and involve the customer
- assessing the client's position and clientship from a structural and empowering perspective
- planning, implementation and evaluation of a process designed to promote client engagement and empowerment
- evaluation and development of one's action
Teaching methods
Orientation, practical training, learning assignment, counselling, poster seminar
Employer connections
Practical training 7 weeks
Exam schedules
-
International connections
Studying in international group
Completion alternatives
-
Student workload
Practical training time is 260 hours.
Further information
Students must have passed one of the following study courses: Structural Social Work, Community-oriented Social Work, Empowering social work or Communication and Media in Social Work.
Evaluation scale
Passed/failed
Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)
X
Assessment criteria, approved/failed
Pass:
Students have gained experience of client-centred action designed to promote client engagement. Students have learnt to examine clients' needs and position and clientship from the perspectives of social structures and processes. They are able to recognise practices, frinze areas and dead zones in the services and systems, which impair clients' position and engagement. Students are able to implement a variety of empowering activities which promote client engagement, using psychosocial, activity-based, creative, community-based, structural and empowering methods. Students know how to select methods that best suit the clients' or groups' needs, situation and resources. When planning activities, students take into account the boundary conditions and resources of the organization. Students have gained experience of planning, implementing and evaluating a process to promote client engagement and empowerment in a social work setting or in a project context. Students know how to acquire and produce information. They evaluate their action, professional development needs and career planning.
Qualifications
Students must have passed one of the following study courses: Structural Social Work, Community-oriented Social Work, Empowering social work or Communication and Media in Social Work.
Further information
The course can be taken in English language
Enrollment
26.04.2021 - 02.05.2021
Timing
01.01.2022 - 29.04.2022
Credits
10 op
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Seats
12 - 60
Degree programmes
- Bachelor of Social Services
Teachers
- Aino Alaverdyan
- Marja-Liisa Saariaho
- Pia-Christine Sainio
Student groups
-
MSOS20
-
SOS20A
Objective
The student is trained to examine the client's needs, the client's equal status and the clientele from the perspective of influential, participatory and discriminatory structures and processes in society. He / she is able to identify discriminatory operating practices, system vulnerabilities and service blind spots that have a detrimental effect on the customer's position and involvement. The student is able to implement activities that support and empower the client in an resource-based way using psychosocial, functional, creative, communal, structural or empowering methods of social work. The student is able to choose methods in a way that suits the needs, situation and resources of the client or client group. He / she is able to take into account the boundary conditions and resources of the organization when planning empowering activities. The student is able to implement a process that promotes the inclusion and empowerment of a client or client group, which includes planning, implementation and evaluation in social work. He has the ability to acquire and produce information about the social work to be taken over. He / she is able to assess his / her own activities and professional development needs as well as the direction of his / her own career planning.
Content
- empowering and resource-driven activities that strengthen the customer and involve the customer
- assessing the client's position and clientship from a structural and empowering perspective
- planning, implementation and evaluation of a process designed to promote client engagement and empowerment
- evaluation and development of one's action
Teaching methods
Orientation, practical training, learning assignment, counselling, poster seminar
Employer connections
Practical training 7 weeks
Exam schedules
-
International connections
Studying in international group
Completion alternatives
-
Student workload
Practical training time is 260 hours.
Further information
Students must have passed one of the following study courses: Structural Social Work, Community-oriented Social Work, Empowering social work or Communication and Media in Social Work.
Evaluation scale
Passed/failed
Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)
X
Assessment criteria, approved/failed
Pass:
Students have gained experience of client-centred action designed to promote client engagement. Students have learnt to examine clients' needs and position and clientship from the perspectives of social structures and processes. They are able to recognise practices, frinze areas and dead zones in the services and systems, which impair clients' position and engagement. Students are able to implement a variety of empowering activities which promote client engagement, using psychosocial, activity-based, creative, community-based, structural and empowering methods. Students know how to select methods that best suit the clients' or groups' needs, situation and resources. When planning activities, students take into account the boundary conditions and resources of the organization. Students have gained experience of planning, implementing and evaluating a process to promote client engagement and empowerment in a social work setting or in a project context. Students know how to acquire and produce information. They evaluate their action, professional development needs and career planning.
Qualifications
Students must have passed one of the following study courses: Structural Social Work, Community-oriented Social Work, Empowering social work or Communication and Media in Social Work.
Further information
The course can be taken in English language