Social Work in Multiprofessional Settings (4cr)

Evaluation scale

1-5

Content scheduling

Timing: weeks 36-43.

Objective

Students are able to recognize the tasks and the position of social work in the social field in various welfare organizations and in organizations of parallel fields, whose primary mission is not in social welfare or services, e.g. early childhood education, work in schools, health care and rehabilitation organizations, criminal services, employment agencies or in the Social Insurance Institution. Students learn to assess the client's situation and needs from the social perspective and to examine the effects of individual, community and society-level factors on the whole. Students know and can find out what social benefits, services, support activities and sources of help are available and learn to counsel their clients on their use. Students incorporate the knowledge of other experts into the overall assessment and the client's own assessment. They have abilities to act as member of multi-professional team.

Content

- social expertise
- multiprofessionalism, co-operation, multi sectoral work
- assessing the client's situation and need for services
- seeking information about services, benefits and legislation
- teamwork and networking, dialogical interaction
- early childhood education, work in schools, health care, intoxicant abusers, employment agencies

Materials

Isoherranen, K.2012.Uhka vai mahdollisuus – moniammatillista yhteistyötä kehittämässä.
Isokorpi, T. 2006, Napit vastakkain ? ristiriidat, rajat ja ratkaisut. PS-kustannus. Sov. osin.
Kerätär, R.2016.Kun katsoo kauempaa, näkee enemmän.Monialainen työkyvyn ja kuntoutustarpeen arviointi pitkäaikaistyöttömillä.
Metteri, A., Valokivi, H.&Ylinen, S.2014.Terveys ja sosiaalityö.
Seikkula, J. & Arnkil T.E. 2009. Dialoginen verkostotyö. Terveyden ja hyvinvoinnin laitos. Saatavana http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2012008999

Teaching methods

Course includes contact teaching independent studying, familiarizing with multi-professional work in different fields of social work, applied assignment

Employer connections

The course does not include practice

Completion alternatives

The course can be studied independently at spring 2018.

Student workload

106hours

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

The students
- can define the concept and the goals of multi-professional work
- are able to name requirements for acting as member of multi-professional team
- are able to describe social work roles and tasks in different fields
- are able to describe client's situation and needs from the perspective of social knowledge
- are able to combine other experts' knowledge to the knowledge of social work
- are able to clarify the main categories and principles of social allowances, social services, social support and help resources

Assessment criteria, good (3)

The students
- are able to observe requirements for acting as member of multi-professional team
- are able to review the roles, the tasks and the expectations towards social work professionals in multi-professional fields from many perspectives
- are able to observe client's situation and needs from the perspective of social knowledge
- are able to make use of other experts' knowledge while solving problems
- are able to clarify exactly the essential points of social allowances, social services, social support and help resources, and clarify how they can be reached
- are able to evaluate client's needs from holistic perspective, including challenges in gaining and in using the services

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

Students
- are able to observe requirements for acting as member of multi-professional team from multiple perspectives
- can compare the nature of social work expertise to expertise of other professions
- are able to analyze challenges of multi-professional work and the factors that influence to the challenges
- are able to state and to produce creative solutions, how to bring out the client's perspective and how to promote multi-professional co-operation

Qualifications

most part of the module Knowledge Base in Social Work

Further information

Students choose between this and the following courses:
- Coaching for Studies and Work
- Social Rehabilitation
- Social Counselling in Residential Care Units
- Social Counselling in Community Care
- Family Counselling