Adult Special Education and Service Guidence, Supervised PracticeLaajuus (11 cr)

Objective

The students can individually support adults and aging people in need of special support.

They can apply the methods of service guidance to the client group of the practice unit and particularly to their own clients.

They base their work on empowerment, ecoculture and communality. They work recognising their own value basis and by following the ethical principles of their profession in work with adult and aging disabled people.

Content

Practice emphasis on individual and community level work with the disabled, which particularly highlights interaction and guidance skills, supporting independent activities and participation of disabled adults and aging people and service guidance. Practice takes place in different units of social care, which are connected to the life areas of disabled adults and aging people.

Qualifications

The students know the basics of special education. They can apply and develop methods of special education in supporting the development and everyday life coping of children and youth in need of special support in cooperation with other professionals. They have learnt to promote health and they know central methods and clinical procedures of health care. They can apply methods of service guidance and family work when thoroughly supporting children anf youth in need of special support and their families. They base their work on empowerment, ecoculture and communality. They work recognising their own value basis and by following the ethical principles of their profession in work with children and families.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

The students can:
- create an equal interaction relationship in client situations and in work community
-support the client in an empowering way to participating and psychosocial activity
-apply the methods of service guidance as support for client(s)
-recognise the possibilites and hindrances of the clients' life environments