Study Guide

Objective

Students are able to engage in professional interaction with individual clients or groups of clients. Using a client-centred approach, students learn how to assess needs for support and services. They are able to describe a goal-oriented work process and participate in the implementation of such processes, as far as possible in their placement. Students are able to apply psychosocial, pedagogical and action-based social work methods with individuals, client groups or communities. Students know how to evaluate the suitability of the selected work methods for the counselling process. They learn to evaluate professional ethical perspectives in social field work and in their own action. Students are able to work as responsible members of the working community. They evaluate their action and assess their professional development needs and career choices.

Content

- professional interaction relationship
- assessment of a client's and client group's social situation and needs
- planning, implementation and evaluation of a goal-oriented psychosocial and activity-based social work process/ pedagogical early childhood education
- planning individual professional goals and evaluation of one's action
- reflection of one's professional ethics

Materials

The same material as for the preceding theoretical courses and material used in practical field placements.

Teaching methods

Orientation, practical training,learning assignments, feedback sessions

Employer connections

The course consists of practical training

Student workload

398 hours, 10 weeks practice and in addition learning assignments

Content scheduling

The practical training takes place in weeks 2-11. Feedback discussions week 12.

Further information

The student, who has intention to work in early childhood education, has to implement one pedagogical practice during the studies. Pedagogical practice means practicing work within early childhood education.

Evaluation scale

Passed/failed

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

X

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Students
- are able to apply psychosocial, pedagogical and activity-based methods in the practice
- have competences to act in client-centered and situation-sensitive way and to evaluate the needs of a client or a group of clients
- have competences to councel and support a client or supervise a group of clients in a goal-oriented way
- are able to describe a goal-oriented work process with a client, to apply it in the field and to evaluate the influences from the situation of the client
- have capacities to set professional goals and evaluate their individual actions from the point of professional ethics
- know how to act as a responsible member of work community.

Assessment methods and criteria

Practical training period (pass), learning assignments, feedback discussions

Qualifications

Major part of the first year studies, Interaction in Psychosocial Work. In addition the students undertaking the module Early Childhood Education must have passed the study courses: Child’s Growth and Learning and Early Childhood Pedagogy.