Ensuring a Child’s Well-Being in Foster Care (5 cr)
Code: TH00CA75-3002
General information
Enrollment
02.06.2024 - 24.10.2024
Timing
01.08.2024 - 31.12.2024
Number of ECTS credits allocated
5 op
Virtual portion
5 op
Mode of delivery
Distance learning
Unit
Health and Well-being
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Seats
46 - 55
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Social Services
Teachers
- Niina Vuoristo
- Noora Kumpulainen
- Laura Närvi
- Susanna Virta
Groups
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PSOSK22V
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PSOSS22V
Objective
• you are able to identify the special needs of children in foster care
• you learn ways to work with traumatised children
• you understand the therapeutic benefits of everyday routines in the life of children in foster care
• you know how to work with children using different working methods
Content
• the well-being of children in foster care, children’s needs, parent-infant bonding disorders and traumas
• therapeutic foster care
• neuropsychiatric challenges
Evaluation scale
H-5
Qualifications
Students can start optional customer group-specific studies when they have completed at least 60 credits.