11.3.6 SW 23 Social Work Models and Methods (27 ECTS Credits)

Objective and content
The student:
•becomes familiar with the theoretical background of project work
•learns the competence of planning, implementing, and evaluating a project of their own to promote the empowerment and welfare of various community groups
•learns about different models of project work, as well as the roles and competences of participants in project work
•understands the challenges of working as a part of a project team and learns the skills of networking, cooperation, and compromise
•gains practical experience in implementing project work methods

Objective and content
The student:
•becomes familiar with the theoretical framework of anti-discriminatory or anti-oppressive practice, and multicultural Social Work
•understands the effect of race & ethnicity, gender, class, age and disability on social divisions in society and the maintenance of structural inequalities
•learns practical skills in working with individuals and groups from ethnic minorities
•comprehends the political nature of reflective social work practice if it aims to challenge sexism, racism, ageism, and disablism, as well as other forms of discrimination and oppression which result in marginalizing certain segments of society
•learn skills and methods related to Group work/counselling
•becomes familiar with the Finnish legislation which relates to entitlements/services for immigrants, and social work with minorities

Objective and content
The student:
•learns about basic theoretical backgrounds of family work
•learns skills in supporting parenting
•becomes familiar with specific dynamics in families living in cross-cultural situations
•becomes familiar with family work methods in families living in cross-cultural situations
•focuses on contents which include: concepts of families in different cultures, methods in supporting and evaluating parenting, dynamics in families living in cross-cultural situations (eg. the meaning of migrant generations in families, the role parents and children in mixed marriages), and methods of cross-cultural family work

Objective and content
The student:
•learns to distinguish the different types of crisis which are connected to the life situations of human beings.
•becomes familiar with different crisis work methods and learns how such crises will be resolved in different cultures.
•learns skills to utilize crisis work methods in practice.
•focuses on specific contents such as the different types of crisis at different stages in life and in different life situations, suicide and death in different cultures, crisis work methods in practice, crisis work services in Finland.

Objective and content
The student:
•becomes familiar with the main pluralist and radical theoretical approaches which inform community work practice as well as with their ideological underpinnings
•becomes acquainted with the various models of community work and the areas of skill concentration
•understands the need for more community based social work practice and the achievement of community capability within the changing nature of Finnish and European society
•comprehends the role of multiprofessional work, volunteering, and the third sector in community work practice
•develops an awareness of the link between community and macro-society in how forces of social exclusion operate at the community level

Objective and content
The student:
•strengthens his/her self-confidence and identity by using creative methods
•obtains the pint of view of the professional applications in creative methods
•can apply activity based methods in client work
•focuses on the following content areas:
the basics of music therapy
listening to, singing, and playing different percussive
instruments
the basic theories of physical education
demonstrations
the didactic basis of physical education
the theory and practice of Sociodrama
the basics of arts and crafts