Ensuring a Child’s Well-Being in Foster Care (5 cr)
Code: TH00CA75-3003
General information
Enrollment
02.06.2025 - 27.10.2025
Timing
01.08.2025 - 31.12.2025
Number of ECTS credits allocated
5 op
Virtual portion
1 op
Mode of delivery
80 % Contact teaching, 20 % Distance learning
Unit
Health and Well-being
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Seats
36 - 45
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Social Services
Teachers
- Niina Vuoristo
- Noora Kumpulainen
- Laura Närvi
- Susanna Virta
Groups
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PSOSTS23
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PSOSTK23
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.