Substitute Care in Child Protection. (5 cr)
Code: SX00EN26-3004
General information
Enrollment
27.11.2023 - 15.02.2024
Timing
18.03.2024 - 11.08.2024
Number of ECTS credits allocated
5 op
Virtual portion
5 op
Mode of delivery
Distance learning
Unit
School of Wellbeing
Campus
Myllypurontie 1
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Seats
0 - 37
Degree programmes
- Social Services (in English)
- Social Services
Teachers
- Elina Savolainen
- Niina Pietilä
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 18.3. and 11.8.2024 at the pace chosen by the student. Students can submit their studies for assessment at 30.4., 31.5. or 11.8. after which the teachers evaluate 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
135 hours
Content scheduling
The student progresses independently 18.3. - 11.8. 2023 so that all the assignments of the course have been returned by 11.8.2024.
Further information
Previous studies: The student must have the basic knowledge of child protection.
Evaluation scale
0-5
Assessment methods and criteria
Opintojaksolla on kuhunkin kokonaisuuteen liittyviä tehtäviä, jotka arvioidaan hyväksytty / hylätty sekä yksi laajempi tehtävä, joka arvioidaan, ja joka muodostaa opintojakson arvosanan.
Arviointikriteerit ilmoitetaan opintojaksolla.