Methods and social advocacy in diaconal work (5cr)
Course unit code: DTA0205A20S
General information
- Credits
- 5 cr
- Teaching language
- Finnish
Objective
Students
• know how to apply customer-oriented empowerment methods that support inclusion as well as pastoral care methods
• know how to guide individuals, families and groups by promoting humans’ ability to function, health and wellbeing
• know how to support parishioners in questions related to loss, sickness and death
• know how to analyse the diaconal task in relation to the society’s service system and their own activities as a diaconal expert in multi-professional networks
• know how to communicate and impact in church and the society to realise social justice
Content
• diaconal work methods
• customer-orientation; individual and communal support
• encountering sorrow and death
• social, healthcare and third-sector services
• the diaconal task and the society’s service system
• social advocacy
Qualifications
Opiskelijalla pitää olla Seurakunta toimintaympäristönä (STY) -opintojakso suoritettuna hyväksytysti ennen DTA -opintojaksoja.
Obligatory preceding study units
- Orientation to higher education studies
- Ethics and expertise in the social, health and church sectors
- Human growth and development
- Encounters and professional interaction
- The parish as an operating environment
- Finnish society, social security and service system
- Creativity and functionality as a resource and expertise
- First aid in social and church sector work
- Parish task and activities