Japan 高校（専門学科）1〜3年 Social Welfare

1. Basics of Social Welfare

Principles and meaning of social welfare · Human relations and communication · History of welfare thought and outlook for a welfare society · Social security supporting daily life

• Social Security System – Social security is a shared safety net. Everyone pays into a common fund through taxes and contributions, and the fund helps people when they fall ill, grow old, lose work or have a disability. It stands on three pillars: health (stopping illness early), medical care (paying for treatment) and welfare (support for daily life).

2. Basics of Care Welfare

Meaning and role of care · Providers of care welfare · Understanding people needing care · Safety and crisis management in care

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3. Communication Skills

Communication in welfare practice · Communicating with service users and families · Team communication in welfare practice

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4. Daily-Life Support Techniques

Understanding daily-life support · Daily-life support for independence · Support in emergencies and disasters · End-of-life support · Medical care procedures (e.g. suction)

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5. Care Process

Meaning and role of the care process · Developing the care process · Practical development of the care process · Team approach in the care process

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6. Comprehensive Care Seminar

Care exercises · Case studies · Investigation, research and experiments

• Research Skills: From a Question to a Finished Project – Research is a careful way of finding an answer. You ask a clear, focused question, plan how to answer it, find information and check that each source can be trusted, collect and analyse your own data, draw a conclusion that the evidence supports, and share it while crediting every source you used.

7. Care Practicum

Practice in various care settings · Continuous practicum for individual care

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8. Understanding Mind and Body

Basic understanding of mind and body · Mind and body needed for daily-life support · Understanding development and ageing · Understanding dementia · Understanding disability

• Human Development: Meaning, Life-Span View and Influences – Development is the pattern of change that begins at conception and continues through the whole life. It includes growth (increase in size), maturation (changes that unfold on a biological timetable) and learning from experience. The life-span view says development is lifelong, multidimensional, multidirectional, plastic, shaped by history, studied by many disciplines and contextual. It involves biological, cognitive and socio-emotional processes that affect each other. Development results from heredity (genotype) and environment working together to produce what we see (phenotype). Contexts matter: Bronfenbrenner described nested systems (micro, meso, exo, macro and chrono), and Durganand Sinha described the Indian child's ecology as inner and outer layers that change over time.

9. Welfare Information

Information society and welfare services · Information ethics and security · Information devices and networks · Welfare services and ICT

• Information Ethics and Security – Information ethics is doing the right thing with information: respect privacy, tell the truth, give credit and do no harm. Information security is keeping information safe from people who should not see or change it, using passwords, locks (encryption), updates, backups and clear rules. Both start with one habit: think before you share.