Counselling in Community Care
| Structure Type: | Course |
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| Code: | SOSAPS70 |
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| Type: | Elective |
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| Level: | Bachelor |
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| Credits: | 4.0 points |
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| Language of Instruction: | Finnish |
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Course Implementations, Planned Year of Study and Semester
| Curriculum | Semester | Credits | Start of Semester | End of Semester |
| SOSALA-2015 |
2 spring |
4.0 |
2017-01-01 |
2017-07-31 |
| SOSALA-2016 |
2 spring |
4.0 |
2018-01-01 |
2018-07-31 |
Learning Outcomes
Students learn to recognise needs to promote the welfare, functional capacity, social engagement and independent coping of home-living clients (e.g. aged people, disabled or chronically ill people and people with mental health problems). Students know what means can be used to assess and promote home-living clients' ability to function. Students learn to assess the clients' need for services and support as regards clients' ability to function, and are able to coordinate services, including private services and voluntary work. Students learn to plan a combination of services to promote the client's welfare and functional capacity, while taking into account the client's perspective and the available resources. Students learn to organise activities which promote clients' welfare and functional capacity and encourage them to participate in the hobbies and events in their locality. Students evaluate and develop their action.
Student's Workload
106 hours
Prerequisites / Recommended Optional Courses
most part of the module Knowledge Base in Social Work
Contents
- social councelling and councelling orienation with home-living clients
- the challenges of welfare, functional capacity and coping in the home environment
- assessing the client's ability to function, measures
- assessing service needs and suitability of the services; coordination of services
- systematic implementation of services
- network methods
- adapting services and support to suit the client's everyday life
- taking the resources of the client's environment into account
- implementing councelling and services in goal-oriented way
- evaluation and development of one's action
Recommended or Required Reading
- Näkki P., Sayed T. (toim.) 2015. Asiakastyön menetelmiä sosiaalialalla. Helsinki Edita. s. 1-61.
- Peavy, V. R. 2006. Sosiodynaamisen ohjauksen opas. Psykologien Kustannus Oy.
-Anttila, H. Paltamaa, J. Valkeinen, H. 2014. Opas toimintakyvyn mittarin arviointiin TOIMIA verkostossa. Terveyden ja hyvinvoinnin laitos. Saatavana: http://www.toimia.fi/opas/
- Teachers material
Mode of Delivery / Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
There are three alternative study methods:
1. Contact teaching
2. Learning at work
3. Independent study
Assessment Criteria
Scale 1-5.
Grade 5:
The students
- are able to analyze and to evaluate the concept of social counselling as the competence of Bachelor of Social Services and as related to social work
- are capable to evaluate holistic life situations of home-living clients and to select, to use and to evaluate the measures of well-being and functional capacities
- are able to evaluate and to analyze the client’s resources
- are capable to use and to evaluate services produced by different actors and to compare and to state the services to meet the capacities of a client and his/her living environment
- have capacities to encourage and motivate the client to use possibilities that the living environment offers
- are able to analyze and the counselling skills that they possess from different perspectives and analyze social counselling broadly as method of social work
Grade 3-4:
The students
- are able to define in diverse way, the concept of social counselling from the perspective of competences of Bachelor of Social Services
- are capable to explain holistic life situations of home-living clients and to use measures of well-being and functional capacities
- are able to evaluate client’s resources
- are capable to use services produced by different actors and to shape services to meet the resources of a client and his/her living environment
- have capacities to encourage and to motivate the client to use possibilities that the living environment offers
- are able to explain and to evaluate their individual counselling skills
Grade 1-2:
The students
- are able to define the concept of social counselling from the perspective of competences of Bachelor of Social Services
- are capable to recognize holistic life situation of home-living clients and to give examples of measures of well-being and functional capacities
- are able to recognize client’s resources
- are capable to find services produced by different actors and to combine services and the resources of a client and his/her living environment
- have capacities to encourage a client to use the possibilities that living environment offers
- are able to recognize their individual counselling skills
Assessment Methods
to be announced in the begining of the study course
Work Placement
the course does not include practice
Further Information
Students choose between this course and the following courses:
- Coaching for Studies and Work
- Social Rehabilitation
- Social Counselling in Residential Care Units
- Family Counselling
- Social Work in Multiprofessional Settings
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