Current active course description (last updated 2021/22)
Communication, Collaboration and Relationship
KOK7000
Current active course description (last updated 2021/22)
Communication, Collaboration and Relationship
KOK7000
The course emphasizes collaboration, relations and communication between user and health worker as a key prerequisite for quality of service offered and professional performance. The course focuses on users' experiences in their lives, their suffering and cooperation with the health service.
The course emphasizes the mental health workers' relations-building competence as a basis for collaboration with patients/users and relatives.
The development and importance of relationships and cooperation between users and mental health professionals is described and problematized from different standpoints and professional traditions.
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Knowledge
The student:
- Has in-depth knowledge of users' experiences of living with mental illness, cooperating with the public health services and being a citizen of society.
- Has advanced knowledge of his/her own role and how relationships with users are established, developed, and maintained.
- Is able to apply his/her collaborative and relationship-building skills in the exercise of their practice.
- Is able to analyse practical issues in cooperative situations and root this in a relational and societal approach.
Skills
The student:
- is able to analyse and relate critically to various sources regarding collaboration and relationships between users and mental health workers.
- is able to use professional, ethical discretion and discernment in development work and practical mental health work.
- is able to enter into evolving, collaborative relationships with colleagues and users.
- is able to analyse and communicate societal conditions affecting users' participation in society.
General knowledge
The student:
- is able to communicate knowledge about cooperation and relationships in professional development and research in mental health work.
- is able to contribute towards new thinking about cooperation and relationships and shared affiliations in mental health work.
Semester registration fee and course literature.
Compulsory
Not offered as independent course.
Lectures, group work, seminar, communication exercises.
The programme of study is evaluated annually by the students through course surveys (mid-term evaluation and final evaluation). The evaluations are part of the university's quality assurance system.