Methods and social advocacy in diaconal work

From

31.8.2025

5 cr

• diaconal work methods • customer-orientation; individual and communal support • encountering sorrow and death • social, healthcare and third-sector services • the diaconal task and the society’s service system • social advocacy

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Scope

5 cr

1 component

Code

DTA0205A20S

What you need to know before the course

What you will learn

Students • know how to apply customer-oriented empowerment methods that support inclusion as well as pastoral care methods • know how to guide individuals, families and groups by promoting humans’ ability to function, health and wellbeing • know how to support parishioners in questions related to loss, sickness and death • know how to analyse the diaconal task in relation to the society’s service system and their own activities as a diaconal expert in multi-professional networks • know how to communicate and impact in church and the society to realise social justice

Organiser

Diakonia-ammattikorkeakoulu