Individual and Group Guidance Skills (5 cr)
Code: AH00CY29-3011
General information
Enrollment
07.05.2025 - 31.08.2025
Timing
06.10.2025 - 10.12.2025
Number of ECTS credits allocated
5 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Unit
Faculty of Health Care and Social Services (LAB)
Campus
Lappeenranta Campus
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Seats
1 - 35
Degree programmes
- Bachelor's Degree Programme in Social Services (in Finnish)
Teachers
- Sanna-Leena Mikkonen
Scheduling groups
- Luennot 1 (Size: 0. Open UAS: 0.)
- Harjoitukset 1 (Size: 0. Open UAS: 0.)
- Itsenäinen 1 (Size: 0. Open UAS: 0.)
- Seminaari 1 (Size: 0. Open UAS: 0.)
- Tentti 1 (Size: 0. Open UAS: 0.)
- Verkkoluento 1 (Size: 0. Open UAS: 0.)
Groups
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HLPRSOS25S
Small groups
- Lecture 1
- Practice 1
- 1
- Seminar 1
- Exam 1
- Online lecture 1
Learning outcomes
The student is able to
- describe the principles of goal-oriented individual and group guidance work
- plan, implement, assess and document goal-oriented individual and group guidance
- use dialogue, activating and sensitive interaction in individual and group guidance
- recognise the digital operating environments of guidance
- analyse their vocational guidance activities
Implementation and methods of teaching
The course is part of the Social Pedagogical Guidance Competence module. The course consists of the following components:
a) On-campus contact teaching sessions and preparation for them (1.5 ECTS)
b) Practical individual guidance/counceling and group aciticity assignments (total of 1.5 ECTS). Individual guidance/counceling: 0.5 ECTS. Group activity leading exercise (planning, implementation, reflection): 1 ECTS.
c) Reading assignment (1 ECTS)
d) Group exam and preparation for it (1 ECTS)
Timing and attendance
The course takes place during weeks 44–50.
A passing grade requires:
- Active participation and completion of exercises and assignments related to the teaching
-Participation in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of practical guidance assignments
- Participation in reading activities and the seminar
-A passing performance in the group exam
Learning material and recommended literature
Optional literature on individual and group guidance/counceling in social services work.
Working life cooperation
Planning, implementation, and evaluation of functional group activity.
Learning environment
Contact teaching at the Lappeenranta campus. Online teaching sessions and an exam via the Zoom platform.
Online learning environment: Moodle.
Student time use and work load
5 ECTS credit course corresponds to 135 hours of student work
Contents
-Principles and practices of goal-oriented individual and group guidance/counceling
-Methods of professional interaction in social and educational work
-Group phenomena and group dynamics
-Digital guidance in social work
-Principles and practices of social pedagogical competence in guidance/counceling
Assessment criteria
A passing grade requires participation in contact teaching as well as successful completion of the assignments and the exam.
Assessment scale
Approved/Failed
Assessment criteria: assessment scale failed/approved
The student is able to
• describe the principles of goal-oriented individual counceling and group guidance
• plan, implement, evaluate, and document goal-oriented individual counceling and activating group guidance
• apply dialogical, activating, and sensitive interaction in individual counceling and group guidance
• identify digital environments used in guidance
• analyze their professional guidance and counceling practices