Personal Professional Development for Bachelors of Social Services (5 cr)
Code: VAL24020-3003
General information
Enrollment
02.12.2025 - 31.12.2025
Timing
01.01.2026 - 31.07.2026
Number of ECTS credits allocated
5 cr
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Unit
Faculty of Health and Welfare
Teaching languages
- Svenska
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Social Services
Teachers
- Luisa Tast
Teacher in charge
Luisa Tast
Objective
The student:
- Has a solid self-awareness and awareness of one's own developmental potential and can identify individual needs for professional development.
- Strengthen their professional role and promote a sustainable professional identity through critical self-reflection and ethical awareness based on personal life experiences, attitudes, and values.
- Has knowledge of and understanding of interpersonal processes and the importance of one's own actions with people in vulnerable life situations.
- Develop relationship competence and realize the importance of professional communication and an empathetic approach, as well as its impact on one's own mental health
Content
- Self-awareness and professional identity
- Values and view of humanity
- Relationship-based social work
- Empathy and compassion fatigue
- Communication and interaction
Location and time
Further information on Peppi and on the course's Moodle page.
Materials
Further information on the course's Moodle page.
Teaching methods
- Lectures
- Exercises
- Guest lecturer from the professional workfield
- Independent work
Employer connections
The course is conducted in collaboration with a guest lecturer from the professional workfield.
Exam schedules
Further information on the course's Moodle page.
Evaluation scale
Approved/Rejected
Qualifications
No prior knowledge needed