Practical Training: Methods of Empowerment in Social Work (10cr)

Content scheduling

Practical training is 3 days / week, during 10 weeks

Objective

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 or 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.

Content

- client-centred action to promote client engagement
- 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

Materials

Materials of preceding theoretical study courses

Teaching methods

Orientation, practical training, learning assignments, seminar

Employer connections

The study course consists of practical training

Student workload

260 hours, during 10 weeks

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

one of the courses included in the module Empowerment Competence

Further information

Practical training is recommended to do in pairs.
The details of organisation of practical placement must be in HATU-system.