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DTA02PK25HKI Methods and social advocacy in diaconal work (5 cr)

Code: DTA0205A20S-3022

General information


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