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DTA02PK22PMK Methods and social advocacy in diaconal work (5 cr)

Code: DTA0205A20S-3005

General information


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