Social work with the family

The master study programme Social work with families provides knowledge for efficient social work with families, based on co-creative processes of support and help. It offers experiences of working relationships in which individual working projects of help are jointly created, and of participation in the research of changes a family needs to achieve the desired outcomes.

The students are trained for social work with families in various fields (such as separation or foster care) and in various institutional contexts (such as centres of social work or non-governmental organisations). The student must complete: two compulsory courses, practicum-field work, two elective subjects from the list of elective subjects of the study programme Social Work with Families, two open elective subjects and the Master’s thesis.

Elective subjects of the study programme are: Working with family in the context of separation and divorce, Foster care and adoption, Social protection of the family and family law protection of its members, Dialogical practice in family social work, Solution focused family social work, Trauma and recovery.