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DTA02MS24OUL Methods and social advocacy in diaconal work (5 cr)

Code: DTA0205A20S-3020

General information


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
  • 14.08.2024 12:30 - 15:45, DTA02 / Orientaatio
  • 13.09.2024 10:15 - 15:45, DTA02 / Luento
  • 02.10.2024 08:30 - 11:45, DTA02 / Luento
  • 02.10.2024 12:30 - 15:45, DTA02 / Luento
  • 11.11.2024 10:15 - 15:45, DTA02 / Luento
  • 12.11.2024 08:30 - 15:45, DTA02 / Dialogitentti
  • 10.12.2024 08:30 - 15:45, 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