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Practical Training: Preventive and Empowering Work with Elderly PeopleLaajuus (6 cr)

Code: BC00BT43

Objective

Upon completion of the course, students know how to identify needs of aged people that can be met by the tools of preventive and empowering gerontological work. Students know how to select and apply various methods and forms of support and recognise what challenges their use may involve. Students analyse their professional development.

Content

Practical training in a setting which allows familiarization with preventive, psychosocial, sociocultural or other resource-oriented or empowering practices. Students' approach to methods depends on the possibilities offered by the placement.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

x

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Pass:
Students extensively identify needs for preventive and empowering gerontological work. They are able to plan and compare services and forms of support and use them in practical client situations. Students analyse their professional development realistically.

Fail: Students are able to identify and name various services and forms of support, but their planning and practical application is lacking. They do not know how to analyse their professional development adequately.

Enrollment

01.12.2021 - 28.02.2022

Timing

14.02.2022 - 13.05.2022

Credits

6 op

Virtual proportion (cr)

1 op

Teaching languages
  • English
Seats

7 - 20

Degree programmes
  • Bachelor of Social Services and Health Care, Applied Gerontology
Teachers
  • Marita Lahti
  • Maria Valli
Student groups
  • IEPOA22S
    Empowerment and Wellbeing of Older Adults
  • MGERO20

Objective

Upon completion of the course, students know how to identify needs of aged people that can be met by the tools of preventive and empowering gerontological work. Students know how to select and apply various methods and forms of support and recognise what challenges their use may involve. Students analyse their professional development.

Content

Practical training in a setting which allows familiarization with preventive, psychosocial, sociocultural or other resource-oriented or empowering practices. Students' approach to methods depends on the possibilities offered by the placement.

Materials

Informed in the first seminar.

Teaching methods

Seminars, project field work, final report.

Employer connections

Project work, field work

Student workload

150h

realization.localizedApproveRejectDescription

Active participation on seminars and field work. Final report.
Approved/failed according the the curriculum.

Further information

Wellcome to this course!

Evaluation scale

1-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

x

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Pass:
Students extensively identify needs for preventive and empowering gerontological work. They are able to plan and compare services and forms of support and use them in practical client situations. Students analyse their professional development realistically.

Fail: Students are able to identify and name various services and forms of support, but their planning and practical application is lacking. They do not know how to analyse their professional development adequately.

Assessment methods and criteria

Active participation on seminars and field work. Final report.
Approved/failed according the the curriculum.