Substitute Care in Child Protection. (5 cr)
Code: SX00EN26-3003
General information
- Enrollment
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13.03.2023 - 02.05.2023
Registration for the implementation has ended.
- Timing
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22.05.2023 - 31.12.2023
Implementation has ended.
- Number of ECTS credits allocated
- 5 cr
- Virtual portion
- 5 cr
- Mode of delivery
- Online
- Unit
- (2019-2024) School of Wellbeing
- Campus
- Myllypurontie 1
- Teaching languages
- Finnish
- Seats
- 0 - 35
- Degree programmes
- Social Services
- Teachers
- Elina Savolainen
- Niina Pietilä
- Course
- SX00EN26
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).
Location and time
Studying takes place independently in Moodle between 22.5. and 30.11.2023 at the pace chosen by the student. Students can submit their studies for assessment at the end of each month (31.7., 31.8., 30.9., 31.10. and 30.11), after which the teacher evaluates the entire course.
Materials
To be announced
Teaching methods
An online course in which the student becomes acquainted with the course materials independently and performs assignments. The course has assignments related to each unit, which are assessed as accepted / rejected, and one broader assignment, which is assessed and which forms the grade of the course.
Employer connections
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Exam schedules
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International connections
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Completion alternatives
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Student workload
5 credits = 135 hours
Content scheduling
The student progresses independently 22.5. - 30.11.2023 so that all the assignments of the course have been returned by 30.11.2023.
Further information
Previous studies: The Child protection course must have been completed or the knowledge of the course
Evaluation scale
0-5
Assessment methods and criteria
The course has assignments related to each unit, which are assessed as accepted / rejected, and two broader assignments, which are assessed and which form the grade of the course.
Assessment criteria are announced in the course.