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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