Study Guide

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

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International connections

Studying in international group

Completion alternatives

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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