VERB1210 The Welfare State and Person-Centered Care Course description

The purpose of the course is for the student to acquire basic knowledge of the health and welfare policy framework within which the social educator provides services. Furthermore, the student will acquire basic knowledge about disabilities and disabilities and the care ideologies that have guided the social educator's service performance. The student should also acquire the basic steps in evidence-based practice and be familiar with the contribution of the natural and social sciences to knowledge-based service provision. The course runs over 6 weeks.

The student must have been admitted to the programme.

Language of instruction: Norwegian

The course builds on knowledge, skills and general competence acquired from the course MABU4100. The purpose of the course is to enable the students to apply and critically assess various knowledge as the basis for physiotherapy adapted to children and adolescents. The course provides a broad theoretical foundation as a basis for measures in which research-based, experience-based and user knowledge are integrated in the design of interventions. Family-centred services and interprofessional work in health-promoting and preventive work, treatment and habilitation are key topics in the course.

The teaching and learning methods include lectures, self-study, group work and project work. The students will be divided into project groups where the syllabus, as well as articles, will be used to shed light on a given case that will be handed out at the start of the course. The project group's case work is discussed and guided in seminars consisting of several groups with the same case. Finally, the project group will present its project work to the fellow students.

The following required coursework must be approved before the student can take the exam:

• Project work in groups of 6 students:
  • Minimum 80 percent participation in group work
  • Participation in 3 out of 4 seminars
  • 100 per cent participation in the digital presentation of the project for fellow students

The course will use varied, student-active work methods. The teaching is session-based with two sessions over five days; four days of teaching and one study day per week. There are four to six weeks between each session.

Teaching at the sessions will vary between lectures and student-active learning in the form of seminars, group work and presentations. Aside from session-based teaching, the teaching methods used are self-study and work on an examination assignment. Students can choose to submit a draft examination paper during the course (approx. 1,000 words). Lecturers and fellow students will provide oral feedback on the drafts submitted.

None.

Individual project examination in the form of a topic chosen by the student that is developed during the course. Scope: 3,000 words (+/- 10%).

Resit examination: If the student is awarded the grade F (fails the written assignment), he/she will be given one (1) opportunity to submit a reworked version.

All answers are assessed by one examiner.

An external examiner is used regularly, at a minimum of every third completion of the course. When selecting answers for external evaluation, a minimum of 10 percent of the answers shall be included, with no fewer than 5 answers. The external examiner’s assessment of the selected answers shall benefit all students.

10 credits overlap with VERN1210/VERNL1210/VERN1210/VERB1200