Families with Complex Life Situations

The subject emphasizes on how an everyday life perspective of families with complex and intertwined life situations can give input to a more complex understanding of the individual family's situation - such as families with children with disabilities, families who are in child welfare or families where parents are in a difficult life situation. Everyday life unfolds and lives in the family, regulating activities and relations in people's lives. The emphasis will be placed on how the habitual in everyday life can provide an additional basis for the support services understanding of the family's situation.
It is in everyday life people live their lives. Man does the same things in the same places and at the same time day by day. This can be understood as the most essential framework for our integrity, which in turn is of major importance in our meeting with the support system.

Knowledge about:
- Different theories of everyday life and the everydayness
- Various theories that are relevant in understanding everyday life
- Knowledge of theories about families with complex and intertwined life situations
Skills:
- Can reflect on different aspects of everyday life and its meaning
- Can identify "the taken for granted"
- Can analyze complex and interwintet life situations
- Can use knowledge of the individual family's life situation
- Can argue independently, objectively and systematically about topics dealt with in the subject

General competence:
- Can relate to, and apply everyday life skills critically and constructively
- Understand and see the connection between big and small events, tasks and activities in everyday life
- Understand the meaning of the habitual
- Understand how everyday life can outplay in different ways
- Ethical awareness in relation to the family's life situation

Learning forms and activities
The subject emphasizes lectures, various forms of group work, self-study and presentations in seminars.

The subject emphasizes lectures, various forms of group work, self-study and presentations in seminars.