Practical training: Promotion of functional capacity in different operating environments
| Structure Type: | Course |
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| Code: | KFG11EHYOS1 |
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| Level: | Bachelor |
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| Credits: | 7.0 points |
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| Responsible Teacher: | Hietaniemi, Elina |
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| Teacher Team: | Koivula, Anna-Kaarina |
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| Language of Instruction: | Finnish |
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Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this training period, students will know how to assess elderly clients' needs in situations involving social problems and they will learn to know and plan services and support interventions to support the clients' welfare. Students will be able to use methods based on resource-oriented and psychosocial approach to work. They will become aware of challenges in the use of these methods. Students will also learn to analyse their professional development.
Student's Workload
182 hours
Prerequisites / Recommended Optional Courses
Empowering interventions in elderly care
Psychosocial methods in elderly care
Contents
Practical training in a unit, in which it is possible to practise interventions for social problems, for example with help of
psychosocial support, family work, work across generations, networking, group and community work and empowering methods.
Recommended or Required Reading
The same literature and material as for the theoretical courses
Mode of Delivery / Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
Practical training, learning journal, seminar work
Assessment Criteria
Level 1 (grade 1-2)
Students are able to identify and name elderly clients' needs related to social problems and, under supervision, to plan services and support interventions. Students' command of methods is still lacking.
Level 2 (grade 3-4)
Students are able to extensively identify and name elderly clients' needs related to social problems and to use resource-oriented and psychosocial methods in their work with elderly clients. They are able to plan services and support interventions that promote clients' welfare and to compare various interventions. Students also know how to apply their knowledge of methods to practical work with clients.
Level 3 (grade 5)
Students are able to extensively identify elderly clients' needs related to social problems and to use a wide variety of resource-oriented and psychosocial methods in their work with clients. They are able to plan services and support interventions that promote clients' welfare. They know how to critically compare various interventions and develop new options to solve elderly clients' social problems.
Assessment Methods
Passed practical training, report and active seminar work. Numerical grading.
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