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DTA02MK24PMK Methods and social advocacy in diaconal work (5 cr)

Code: DTA0205A20S-3018

General information


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
  • 10.01.2024 12:15 - 15:30, DTA02/ Orientaatio
  • 11.01.2024 08:30 - 11:30, DTA02/ Luento
  • 11.01.2024 12:15 - 15:30, DTA02/ Luento
  • 02.04.2024 09:00 - 14:30, DTA02/ Luento (menetelmät)
  • 03.04.2024 09:00 - 14:00, DTA02/ Luento
  • 04.04.2024 08:30 - 15:30, DTA02/ Dialogitentti
  • 16.04.2024 13:30 - 19:30, DTA01/Tuomasmessun valmistelut ja toteuttaminen
  • 17.04.2024 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