Coping conditions, health and functional difficulties

The student:

Knowledge

• demonstrates broad knowledge of coordinated, coherent and knowledge-based habilitation and rehabilitation within work with intoxication, mental health work and mental retardation
• demonstrates knowledge of coping and facilitating autonomy, self-help and self-regulation
• demonstrates knowledge of public health work, disease prevention and health promotion at individual, group and societal levels
• demonstrates broad knowledge of causes and conditions that affect cognition and behavior
• demonstrates knowledge of how health failure, illness and disabilities affect physical, cognitive and social functions
• demonstrates broad knowledge of people with mental retardation
• demonstrates knowledge of symptoms and treatment of the most common mental illnesses
• demonstrates knowledge of children and young people and is able to be a practitioner who takes care of their needs for services and can ensure their participation and rights
• demonstrates knowledge of how social inequality and social problems such as neglect, violence, abuse, bullying, drug and socio-economic problems affect health, living conditions and quality of life
• demonstrates knowledge of how suspicion or knowledge of sexual and other abuse should be handled
• is familiar with current patient processes

Skills

• is able to apply professional knowledge to critically discuss his/her own work process and different models in social care work
• is able to apply professional knowledge to analyze and assess tasks and issues that actualize environmental therapeutic work, habilitation and rehabilitation within work with intoxication, mental health work and mental retardation
• is able to apply professional knowledge in relation to decision support
• is able to apply professional knowledge to implement necessary measures, and / or treatment of social problems or refer further if necessary
• is able to apply professional knowledge to promote inclusion, gender equality and participation in all parts of society
• is able to apply knowledge to discuss different ways of talking to children about topics such as neglect, violence and abuse

General competence

• is able to plan targeted collaboration processes with service users, relatives and other service providers
• is able to convey key subject material on environmental therapeutic work, habilitation and rehabilitation in writing and orally to contribute to the development of good practice
• demonstrates insight into the connections between health, education, work and living conditions
• demonstrates insight into quality work, is able to assess the risk of undesirable incidents and is familiar with methods for following this up systematically through quality, notification and non-conformance management systems

• Mental health
• Mental disorders and substance abuse problems
• Mental retardation
• Social and emotional difficulties
• Violence and abuse
• Preventive and health-promoting work
• Social psychology and collaboration

Participated in compulsory education.

Approved mandatory work requirements.