Stay Well - Social Wellbeing and Mental Health (5 cr)

Objective

The Student
- becomes aware of the impact of the family background on wellbeing and mental health
- understands the impact that social relationships and the acceptance of difference have on wellbeing
- is able to identify possibilities to promote participation and equality from the perspective of their professional field
- understands the principles of emotional skills
- knows how to strengthen personal habits supporting and promoting mental wellbeing
- understands how the process of sympathy exhaustion and secondary traumatization work and is able to identify ways to protect themselves
- is able to identify traumatic crisis situations, the individual reactions related to them as well as protective factors against crisis
- is aware of the service system related with mental health and wellbeing within the Finnish social and healthcare system

Content

The effects of family background, surrounding community and society on mental and social wellbeing
Socialization, social capital and participation
Promotion of equality and acceptance of difference
Protective social networks
Personal strengths and resiliences
Emotional skills
Sympathetic exhaustion and secondary traumatization
Means to prevent sympathetic exhaustion and secondary traumatization
Crisis recognition and management skills
Promotion of social wellbeing and mental health within the social and health care system

Materials

The learning material is in the Moodle

Teaching methods

Independent online study in Moodle:
Activating lectures
Learning tasks
Learning journal

Student workload

5 credits = 135 hours of student work

Content scheduling

- The course consists of five sub-areas, which the student completes over the course of five weeks.
- Moving to the next period requires the completion of the previous period, so the student must return his learning assignments weekly.
- Finally, the student prepares a learning diary, which is returned at the end of the study period.

Evaluation scale

0-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Students can:
- show their familiarization with the knowledge base of the field
- distinguish everyday knowledge from scientific knowledge
- use the concepts of the field appropriately
- evaluate their strengths and development needs
- show they have reached the goals set for the core competence

Assessment criteria, good (3)

Students can:
search for evidence-based knowledge diversely
use concepts of the field extensively
use rational justification for their actions
focus on their work and develop it

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

Students can:
- use and evaluate evidence-based knowledge critically
- apply the concepts of their field extensively
- evaluate and apply alternative solutions to their decision-making
- work in a goal-oriented way and develop themselves

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Students can:
- show their familiarization with the knowledge base of the field
- distinguish everyday knowledge from scientific knowledge
- use the concepts of the field appropriately
- evaluate their strengths and development needs
- show they have reached the goals set for the core competence

Assessment methods and criteria

Weekly learning tasks in Moodle
Learning diary