Clients and Environments in Green Care (5 cr)

Evaluation scale

Pass/Fail

Objective

The student is able to define central client groups and goals related to Green Care and well-being:

- The student is able to encounter different client groups and she can consider client needs in Green Care environment.
- The student is able to recognize and name client’s goals.
- The student can combine Green Care knowledge to client’s goals related to well-being.
The student can analyze Green Care environments and plan and modify them for Green Care activities:

- The student masters concepts of Green Care environments and she is able to apply the concepts into client work
- The student understands the meaning of guiding clients in Green Care activities and environments
- The student is able to analyze and modify Green Care environment through client orientated approach. She can take accessibility, experiencing nature, person-environment fit and environment’s suitability for client into account.

Content

Getting to know different client groups, setting the goals and client’s occupational performance. Physical and social Green Care environment and the meaning of guiding in when working with clients. Green Care environment’s accessibility and usability. Analyzing and modifying Green Care environments to meet client’s needs.

Materials

Lectures and material on moodle:
- powerpoint slides, interviews, online lectueres and other material
- Sempik, J., Hine, R., & Wilcock D. (ed.) 2010. Green Care: Conceptual Framework.
- Vehmasto, E. (toim.).2014. Green Care-toimintatavan suuntaviivat Suomessa.
- Current articles and publications

Teaching methods

Online lectures, lectures, webinars, assignments and a contact day. Attendance to contact day is required.

Student workload

Online lectures, webinars and study material 3,5 ects, assignments and contact cay 1,5 ects. Student workload, all together 135h= 5 ects.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Pass/Fail Evaluation is based on documenting the work, work during contact day and peer evaluation. Pass: The student is able to recognize different client groups. She is able to apply knowledge related to client when planning and modifying Green Care environment in order to help client to reach her goals. The student recognizes Green Care potential in her own environment. She can describe Green Care environments and their effects on well-being. The student knows borderlines of Green Care environment (e.g. accessibility and usability. She can critically evaluate environment's suitability for the client. The student recognizes needs of different Green Care-environment users. The student can describe different ways of guiding clients in Green Care environment in order to help then to reach their goals.

Qualifications

Basics of Green Care

Further information

This coure is a part of Green Care Pro-education. More information: ttps://blogi.eoppimispalvelut.fi/greencare/