Practical Training: Methods of Empowerment in Social Work

Structure Type: Course
Code: SOSEM70
Type: Compulsory
Level: Bachelor
Credits: 10.0 points
Language of Instruction: English

Course Implementations, Planned Year of Study and Semester

Curriculum  Semester  Credits  Start of Semester  End of Semester
SOSALA-2015   3 autumn   10.0   2017-08-01   2017-12-31  
SOSALA-2016   3 autumn   10.0   2018-08-01   2018-12-31  

Learning Outcomes

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.

Student's Workload

265 hours, 7 weeks

Prerequisites / Recommended Optional Courses

one of the courses included in the module Empowerment Competence

Contents

- 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

Recommended or Required Reading

materials of preceding theoretical study courses

Mode of Delivery / Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

orientation, practical training, learning assignments, feedback discussions

Assessment Criteria

Scale pass/fail.
Pass:
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.

Assessment Methods

practical training (pass), learning assignments, self-evaluation, feedback discussion

Work Placement

the study course consists of practical training

Further Information

The course can be taken in English language

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