Substitute Care in Child Protection.Laajuus (5 cr)

Objective

Student
- is able to identify the special needs of children placed outside the home and their families
- learns to support children placed outside the home and their families
-understand specific ethical issues related to foster care

Content

Reasons for placing in foster care. The purpose of foster care. Foster care as a child's experience. Well-being and support for children placed outside the home and their parents: working with children placed outside the home, the importance of rehabilitative daily life, meeting and therapeutic institutional education, attachment and trauma. Social network of the child and working with it. Support for returning home. Restrictive and disciplinary practices. Quality criteria for foster care. Foster care control and supervision system. Foster care as a professional activity (professional identity and multiprofessional co-operation).