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Methods and social advocacy in diaconal workLaajuus (5 cr)

Code: DTA0205A20S

Credits

5 op

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

Timing

13.01.2025 - 30.05.2025

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Virtual portion

5 op

Mode of delivery

Distance learning

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Seats

0 - 10

Degree programmes
  • BA in Health Care, Diaconal Nursing
  • BA of Social Services, Diaconal Work
Teachers
  • Päivi Thitz
  • Maija Kupsala
Groups
  • AVOIN-KELP
    Students in qualification modules

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

Enrollment

23.09.2024 - 13.10.2024

Timing

13.01.2025 - 27.04.2025

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Campus

Helsinki

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Seats

0 - 70

Degree programmes
  • BA in Health Care, Diaconal Nursing
  • BA of Social Services, Diaconal Work
Teachers
  • Virve Valkeavuori
  • Nina Niemelä
Groups
  • A52shd
  • HKI-S23sosd

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

Enrollment

01.03.2024 - 18.03.2024

Timing

21.10.2024 - 15.12.2024

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Virtual portion

1 op

Mode of delivery

80 % Contact teaching, 20 % Distance learning

Campus

Pori

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Seats

0 - 100

Degree programmes
  • BA of Social Services, Diaconal Work
Teachers
  • Ilona Kontinen
  • Maija Kupsala
Groups
  • F54sosd
    F54sosd

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

Enrollment

01.03.2024 - 18.03.2024

Timing

19.08.2024 - 15.12.2024

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Virtual portion

1 op

Mode of delivery

80 % Contact teaching, 20 % Distance learning

Campus

Helsinki

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Seats

0 - 100

Degree programmes
  • BA of Social Services, Diaconal Work
Teachers
  • Virve Valkeavuori
Groups
  • A54sosd
    A54sosd

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

Enrollment

01.03.2024 - 18.03.2024

Timing

12.08.2024 - 15.12.2024

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 of Social Services, Diaconal Work
Teachers
  • Nina Niemelä
  • Maija Kupsala
Groups
  • I54sosd
    I54sosd

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

Timing

01.08.2024 - 31.12.2024

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Virtual portion

5 op

Mode of delivery

Distance learning

Campus

Diak joint implementation

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Seats

0 - 33

Degree programmes
  • BA in Health Care, Diaconal Nursing
  • BA of Social Services, Diaconal Work
Teachers
  • Päivi Thitz

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

Enrollment

11.10.2023 - 29.10.2023

Timing

08.01.2024 - 28.04.2024

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Campus

Helsinki

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Seats

0 - 333

Degree programmes
  • BA in Health Care, Diaconal Nursing
  • BA of Social Services, Diaconal Work
Teachers
  • Virve Valkeavuori
Groups
  • A53sosd
  • A50shd
    A50shd

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

Enrollment

11.10.2023 - 29.10.2023

Timing

08.01.2024 - 19.05.2024

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 - 333

Degree programmes
  • BA of Social Services, Diaconal Work
Teachers
  • Nina Niemelä
  • Maija Kupsala
Groups
  • E53sosd

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

Enrollment

01.03.2023 - 19.03.2023

Timing

02.10.2023 - 17.12.2023

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Virtual portion

1 op

Mode of delivery

80 % Contact teaching, 20 % Distance learning

Campus

Pori

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Seats

0 - 333

Degree programmes
  • BA of Social Services, Diaconal Work
Teachers
  • Mirva Heikkilä-Tyni
Groups
  • F52sosd

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

Enrollment

01.03.2023 - 19.03.2023

Timing

21.08.2023 - 15.12.2023

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Virtual portion

1 op

Mode of delivery

80 % Contact teaching, 20 % Distance learning

Campus

Helsinki

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Seats

0 - 333

Degree programmes
  • BA of Social Services, Diaconal Work
Teachers
  • Virve Valkeavuori
Groups
  • A52sosd

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

Enrollment

01.03.2023 - 19.03.2023

Timing

14.08.2023 - 17.12.2023

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 - 333

Degree programmes
  • BA in Health Care, Diaconal Nursing
  • BA of Social Services, Diaconal Work
Teachers
  • Maija Kupsala
Groups
  • I52sosd
  • I52shd

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

Enrollment

01.03.2023 - 19.03.2023

Timing

07.08.2023 - 22.09.2023

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Campus

Helsinki

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Seats

0 - 333

Degree programmes
  • BA in Health Care, Diaconal Nursing
Teachers
  • Virve Valkeavuori
Groups
  • A49shd

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

Enrollment

19.09.2022 - 09.10.2022

Timing

16.01.2023 - 19.05.2023

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Campus

Helsinki

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Seats

0 - 333

Degree programmes
  • BA of Social Services, Diaconal Work
Teachers
  • Virve Valkeavuori
Groups
  • A51sosd
    A51sosd

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

Materials

HUOM!!! Koska diakonissoilta jää sielunhoito kokonaan pois. Laitoin vertailun vuoksi ja pohdittavaksi mitä SIE01 ja SIE02 kirjoista voidaan ehkä siirtää DTA02:een

SIE01 KIRJOJA:
Gothóni, Raili 2020. Kuuntelijan käsikirja. Jyväskylä. PS-kustannus.

Gothóni, Raili 2014. Auttava kohtaaminen II. Sielunhoidon menetelmät ja käytäntö. Helsinki. Kirjapaja. Saatavilla e-lainana. https://diak.finna.fi/Record/diana.103767 (sivut 24-76)

Hengellinen työ: Hengellinen ohjaus ja matkakumppanuus (Jouko Porkka)

Paavo Kettunen: Auttava kohtaaminen I. Sielunhoidon perusteet ja teologia. Helsinki 2013, Lasten Keskus ja Kirjapaja. Saatavilla e-lainana. https://diak.finna.fi/Record/diana.99564 (sivut 13-37, 46-128, 146-195)

Elina Juntunen & Reijo Räisänen: Spiritualiteetti työelämässä. Kirjassa Marjaana Kanerva & Juha Tanska (toim.) Työ ja Henki - avaimia henkiseen ja hengelliseen työhyvinvointiin (ss. 15-39). Helsinki 2013. Kirjapaja.

Kirsi Stjerna: Olemme kaikki hengellisiä. Luterilainen armon spiritualiteetti. Kirjassa Anna-Kaisa Inkala & Jyri Komulainen (toim.) Armon horisontit - huomisen luterilaisuus (ss. 133-148). Helsinki 2016: Kirjapaja.

OPETTAJA: vaihtoehtomateriaali jälkimmäisille teoksille (löytyy verkosta):
Virtaniemi Matti-Pekka 2020. Valo ja varjo minussa sielunhoitajana. Sielunhoidon aikakauskirja 1/2020. https://sielunhoidonaikakauskirja.fi/2020-1/valo-ja-varjo-minussa-sielunhoitajana

SIE02 TALLENTEITA JA KIRJOJA:
Jouko Porkka. Hengellinen työ: Sielunhoidon etiikkaa
Jouko Porkka. hengellinen työ: Sielunhoidon etiikkaa - häpeä ja syyllisyys
Jouko Porkka. Hengellinen työ: Sielunhoidon etiikkaa - vaitiolo ja salassapito
Tero Pulkkinen (Kirkkohallitus). Sielunhoito ja psykoterapia
Paavo Kettunen: Auttava kohtaaminen I. Sielunhoidon perusteet ja teologia. Helsinki 2013, Lasten Keskus ja Kirjapaja. Saatavilla e-lainana. https://diak.finna.fi/Record/diana.99564(sivut 129-140, 232-252)

Kotila Heikki 2006. Hengellisen ohjauksen kirja. Helsinki: Kirjapaja. Saatavilla e-lainana. https://diak.finna.fi/Record/diana.73985.

Henri Järvinen: Spiritualiteetti työhyvinvoinnin kysymyksenä. Kirjassa Marjaana Kanerva & Juha Tanska (toim.) Työ ja Henki - avaimia henkiseen ja hengelliseen työhyvinvointiin (ss. 40-52). Helsinki 2013. Kirjapaja.

Evaluation scale

0-5

Enrollment

19.09.2022 - 09.10.2022

Timing

09.01.2023 - 19.05.2023

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Virtual portion

1 op

Mode of delivery

80 % Contact teaching, 20 % Distance learning

Campus

Pieksämäki

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Seats

0 - 100

Degree programmes
  • BA of Social Services, Diaconal Work
Teachers
  • Heini Sajalin
  • Päivi Thitz
Groups
  • E51sosd
    E51sosd

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

Materials

HUOM!!! Koska diakonissoilta jää sielunhoito kokonaan pois. Laitoin vertailun vuoksi ja pohdittavaksi mitä SIE01 ja SIE02 kirjoista voidaan ehkä siirtää DTA02:een

SIE01 KIRJOJA:
Gothóni, Raili 2020. Kuuntelijan käsikirja. Jyväskylä. PS-kustannus.

Gothóni, Raili 2014. Auttava kohtaaminen II. Sielunhoidon menetelmät ja käytäntö. Helsinki. Kirjapaja. Saatavilla e-lainana. https://diak.finna.fi/Record/diana.103767 (sivut 24-76)

Hengellinen työ: Hengellinen ohjaus ja matkakumppanuus (Jouko Porkka)

Paavo Kettunen: Auttava kohtaaminen I. Sielunhoidon perusteet ja teologia. Helsinki 2013, Lasten Keskus ja Kirjapaja. Saatavilla e-lainana. https://diak.finna.fi/Record/diana.99564 (sivut 13-37, 46-128, 146-195)

Elina Juntunen & Reijo Räisänen: Spiritualiteetti työelämässä. Kirjassa Marjaana Kanerva & Juha Tanska (toim.) Työ ja Henki - avaimia henkiseen ja hengelliseen työhyvinvointiin (ss. 15-39). Helsinki 2013. Kirjapaja.

Kirsi Stjerna: Olemme kaikki hengellisiä. Luterilainen armon spiritualiteetti. Kirjassa Anna-Kaisa Inkala & Jyri Komulainen (toim.) Armon horisontit - huomisen luterilaisuus (ss. 133-148). Helsinki 2016: Kirjapaja.

OPETTAJA: vaihtoehtomateriaali jälkimmäisille teoksille (löytyy verkosta):
Virtaniemi Matti-Pekka 2020. Valo ja varjo minussa sielunhoitajana. Sielunhoidon aikakauskirja 1/2020. https://sielunhoidonaikakauskirja.fi/2020-1/valo-ja-varjo-minussa-sielunhoitajana

SIE02 TALLENTEITA JA KIRJOJA:
Jouko Porkka. Hengellinen työ: Sielunhoidon etiikkaa
Jouko Porkka. hengellinen työ: Sielunhoidon etiikkaa - häpeä ja syyllisyys
Jouko Porkka. Hengellinen työ: Sielunhoidon etiikkaa - vaitiolo ja salassapito
Tero Pulkkinen (Kirkkohallitus). Sielunhoito ja psykoterapia
Paavo Kettunen: Auttava kohtaaminen I. Sielunhoidon perusteet ja teologia. Helsinki 2013, Lasten Keskus ja Kirjapaja. Saatavilla e-lainana. https://diak.finna.fi/Record/diana.99564(sivut 129-140, 232-252)

Kotila Heikki 2006. Hengellisen ohjauksen kirja. Helsinki: Kirjapaja. Saatavilla e-lainana. https://diak.finna.fi/Record/diana.73985.

Henri Järvinen: Spiritualiteetti työhyvinvoinnin kysymyksenä. Kirjassa Marjaana Kanerva & Juha Tanska (toim.) Työ ja Henki - avaimia henkiseen ja hengelliseen työhyvinvointiin (ss. 40-52). Helsinki 2013. Kirjapaja.

Evaluation scale

0-5

Enrollment

01.03.2022 - 18.03.2022

Timing

24.10.2022 - 16.12.2022

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 - 300

Degree programmes
  • BA in Health Care, Diaconal Nursing
  • BA of Social Services, Diaconal Work
Teachers
  • Heini Sajalin
  • Kirsi Laukkonen
Groups
  • I50sosd
    I50sosd
  • I50shd
    I50shd

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

Enrollment

01.03.2022 - 18.03.2022

Timing

03.10.2022 - 16.12.2022

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Virtual portion

1 op

Mode of delivery

80 % Contact teaching, 20 % Distance learning

Campus

Pori

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Seats

0 - 333

Degree programmes
  • BA of Social Services, Diaconal Work
Teachers
  • Mirva Heikkilä-Tyni
Groups
  • F50sosd
    F50sosd

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

Enrollment

01.03.2022 - 18.03.2022

Timing

22.08.2022 - 16.12.2022

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Virtual portion

1 op

Mode of delivery

80 % Contact teaching, 20 % Distance learning

Campus

Helsinki

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Seats

0 - 200

Degree programmes
  • BA of Social Services, Diaconal Work
Teachers
  • Virve Valkeavuori
  • Päivi Thitz
Groups
  • A50sosd
    A50sosd

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

Enrollment

13.09.2021 - 05.10.2021

Timing

10.03.2022 - 20.05.2022

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Virtual portion

1 op

Mode of delivery

80 % Contact teaching, 20 % Distance learning

Campus

Pieksämäki

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Seats

0 - 300

Degree programmes
  • BA of Social Services, Diaconal Work
Teachers
  • Kati Jansa
  • Päivi Thitz
Groups
  • E49sosd

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

Enrollment

13.09.2021 - 05.10.2021

Timing

17.01.2022 - 20.05.2022

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Virtual portion

1 op

Mode of delivery

80 % Contact teaching, 20 % Distance learning

Campus

Helsinki

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Seats

0 - 300

Degree programmes
  • BA of Social Services, Diaconal Work
Teachers
  • Heini Sajalin
  • Virve Valkeavuori
  • Ilona Kontinen
Groups
  • A49sosd

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