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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

  • PSOSTS23
  • 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.