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Child Clients and Their Welfare in Residential Work (5 cr)

Code: 7081251-3002

General information


Enrollment

05.05.2021 - 22.11.2021

Timing

08.11.2021 - 28.02.2022

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Unit

Health and Well-being

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Degree programmes

  • Degree Programme in Social Services

Teachers

  • Niina Vuoristo
  • Noora Kumpulainen
  • Laura Närvi
  • Susanna Virta

Groups

  • PSOSTS19
  • MSOSTK19
  • MSOSSS19
  • PSOSTK19

Objective

Student
- is able to recognize the special needs of placed children and their families
- learns to support placed children and their families

Content

Content
- placed children’s welfare; children’s “normal” and special needs; affectional issues, trauma
- with placed children; therapeutic facility upbringing
- cooperation between special and demanding level services: facility care (child and youth caring institution, reform schools),
special medical care, neuropsychiatry
- support of adaptation at home, parenthood persuasion
- participation of placed children’s parents

Evaluation scale

H-5