DTA02MS21OUL Methods and social advocacy in diaconal work (5 cr)
Code: DTA0205A20S-3001
General information
Enrollment
01.03.2021 - 17.03.2021
Timing
25.10.2021 - 17.12.2021
Number of ECTS credits allocated
5 op
Virtual portion
1 op
Mode of delivery
80 % Contact teaching, 20 % Distance learning
Campus
Oulu
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Seats
0 - 100
Degree programmes
- BA in Health Care, Diaconal Nursing
- BA of Social Services, Diaconal Work
Teachers
- Heini Sajalin
- Kirsi Laukkonen
Groups
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I48sosd
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I48shd
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
Evaluation scale
0-5