DTA02MS23HKI Methods and social advocacy in diaconal work (5 cr)
Code: DTA0205A20S-3015
General information
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
- 21.11.2023 08:30 - 15:30, DTA02 / Dialogitentti
- 14.12.2023 08:30 - 15:30, DTA02 / Menetelmäseminaari
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