Soile Juujärvi

Laurea Universities of Applied Sciences · Unit of Digital Education and Master Programmes

The study investigated changes in care-based moral reasoning, in the context of justice development over the 2-year period among practical-nursing, bachelor-degree social-work and law-enforcement students (N = 59). Main measures were Skoe's Ethic of Care Interview and Colby et al.'s Moral Judgment Interview. Of the participants 34% progressed in ca...

This paper is a report of a study conducted to describe nursing and social services students' ethical reasoning at the start of their studies. Gilligan argued that there are two modes of moral reasoning - the ethic of justice, focusing on individuals' rights, and the ethic of care, focusing on responsibilities in relationships. Recent research has...

Juujärvi, S., Myyry, L. & Pesso, K. (2012). Empathy and values as predictors of care development. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology 53, 413–420. This study investigates values and affective empathy as predictors for care-based moral development. Fifty-three students from a university of applied sciences were interviewed with Skoe’s Ethic of Care I...

While the ethic of care has generally been regarded as an appropriate attitude for nurses, it has not received equal attention as a mode of ethical problem solving. The primary nursing model is expected to be aligned with the ethic of care because it emphases the nurse–patient relationship and enables more independent role for nurses in decision-ma...

Yhteiskunnan digitalisoitumisen myötä on syntynyt uudenlaisia yhteiskunnallisia kahtiajakoja, jotka ovat seurausta kansalaisten digitaalisten taitojen puutteista ja digitaalisten palvelujen saavutettavuuden esteistä. Tämä kehitys luo haasteita sosiaali- ja terveysalan ammattilaisten osaamiselle. Heillä tulee olla digitaalista osaamista, mutta myös...

Digituki on yhteiskunnan eri toimijoiden tarjoamaa uudenlaista tukea digitaalisten laitteiden ja palvelujen itsenäiseen käyttöön, jotta kansalaisia ei syrjäytyisi digitaalisten laitteiden ja taitojen puutteen vuoksi. Tässä tutkimuksessa yhteisöpajat mahdollistavat toimijoiden yhteistyön rakentamisen digituen antamiseksi haavoittuvassa asemassa olev...

Moral distress is a pervasive phenomenon in health and social care organisations when employees feel unable to follow their ethical convictions, leading to impaired well-being and staff turnovers. While previous research has focused on identifying external root causes of moral distress, it has overlooked the subjective and multidimensional nature o...

Most citizens are fluent in the use of digital devices and services, but there is a minority who are excluded due to lack of devices and skills and to negative attitudes. Therefore, economically and socially disadvantaged people need support to reverse the process of digital exclusion. Digital support is intended to promote the skills that pe...

Dilemma discussions have been proven to be one of the most effective methods to enhance students’ moral reasoning in ethics education. Dilemma discussions are increasingly arranged online, but research on the topic has remained sparse, especially in the context of continuing professional education. The aim of the present paper was to develop a meth...

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the digitalization of services, but at the same time, some user groups are excluded due to a lack of digital skills. One of the vulnerable groups is people with mental health problems. It has previously been found that self-efficacy beliefs explain the use of digital technology, but the role of soc...

Tässä artikkelissa tarkastelemme sosiaali- ja terveydenhuollon (sote) ammattilaisten työssään kohtaamia eettisiä ongelmia huolenpidon ja oikeudenmukaisuuden etiikkojen viitekehyksessä. Sähköiseen kyselyyn vastasi 137 ammattikorkeakoulutaustaista ammattilaista. Aineisto analysoitiin arkielämän moraaliongelmien taksonomian sekä huolenpidon ja oikeude...

Organisaatioiden tai palvelujen yhteensovittaminen eli integraatio muuttaa sosiaali- ja terveydenhuollon toimintaympäristöjä ja työkäytäntöjä. Muutokset edellyttävät alan ammattilaisilta uutta osaamista tai kykyä soveltaa entistä osaamista uudessa kontekstissa. Artikkelissa tarkastellaan, millaista osaamista integraatio lähijohtajien mielestä koros...

Participatory action research (PAR) is a well-known approach in social sciences but is seldom used in urban development projects. It represents a community-focused approach that is deeply grounded in ethical values, especially that of social justice. This paper analyzes experiences from two PAR projects, conducted in a disadvantaged municipal distr...

The ethics of care and justice provide two complementary viewpoints on everyday ethics in human services and healthcare professions. The ethic of care is centred on maintaining relationships through responding to needs of other people and avoiding hurt, whereas the ethic of justice is centred on maintaining duties, equity and fairness through the a...

Modern democratic societies provide their members with latitude for choice regarding values and moral codes, in interpersonal relations, professional life, as well as political views on a fair society. This chapter examines two research traditions in moral psychology which view adult moral thinking in terms of reflective problem solving aroused by...

Sosionomi (AMK) -tutkintoa järjestää yhdeksäntoista ammattikorkeakoulua vuonna 2020. Tutkinnon laajuus on 210 opintopistettä. Sosionomitutkinnon suorittaneella on laaja-alainen ammatillinen osaaminen sosiaalialalle. Laaja-alaisen ammatillisen osaamisen lisäksi hänellä on erikoisosaamista, joka liittyy ihmisen elämänkaaren eri vaiheisiin, sosiaalial...

It is argued that besides the ethic of justice, the ethic of care is essential for social work ethics, and these approaches need to be fused to meet contemporary challenges of New Public Management in public services. The present study explored social welfare workers’ ethical decision-making in restructured organisations in Finland. A total of 111...

1. TIIVISTELMÄ Sosiaali- ja terveydenhuollon asiakkaille tarjottavat sähköiset asiointi- ja omahoitopalvelut ovat lisääntyneet nopeasti. Nämä palvelut edellyttävät asiakkailta entistä aktiivisempaa roolia oman terveytensä ja hyvinvointinsa hoidossa, mikä muuttaa myös ammattilaisten toimenkuvaa ja tehtäviä. Nopea muutos edellyttää sopeutumista sekä...

Uuden julkisjohtamisen viitekehyksessä pyritään asiakaslähtöisiin ja kustannustehokkaisiin palveluihin. Asiakaslähtöisyyttä voidaan tarkastella palvelujen kehittämisen ohella myös asiakkaan kohtaamiseen liittyvänä eettisenä kysymyksenä. Sosiaali- ja terveydenhuollon uudistuspyrkimykset luovat uudenlaisia ehtoja hoitajien, potilaiden ja asiakkaiden...

In health and social services, there is an acknowledged need for client-centred counselling competences. The aim of this study was to examine how health and social care professionals self-evaluate their competences in motivational interviewing and solution-focused counselling. The sample comprised 75 professionals who self-evaluated their counselli...

Introduction This study investigates future integrated care competencies among workforce in health and social service sectors in the context of the national health and social services reform in Finland. Methods The sample was drawn from the registers of competent workforce in the social and health sectors in Finland in three different forerunner a...

The health and social services system in Finland is undergoing a huge reform that strives for more efficient and effective services, improved health, wellbeing and equality among citizens. The guiding principle is to increase freedom of choice in services, while the citizen can choose a service provider from among a variety of authorised providers...

Osallistumisesta toimintaan: menetelmällisiä ratkaisuja kaupunkikehittämiseen Abstrakti: Kunnan viranomaisilla on yhteiskehittämisessä kaksoisrooli, kun he toimivat sekä palvelujen kehittäjinä että lähidemokratian edistäjinä. Arkitodellisuudessa asukkailla ei ole tasavertaista mahdollisuutta ja keinoja vaikuttaa päätöksentekoon ja palvelujen kehitt...

AMK-lehti / UAS Journalin numeron 4/2018 teemana on osallistava aluekehittäminen Osallistava aluekehittäminen Tähän teemanumeroon toivomme kirjoituksia korkeakoulujen osallistumisesta alueiden kehittämistyöhön. Kirjoituksissa voidaan kuvata erilaisia aluekehittämisen menetelmiä ja yhteistyömuotoja. Aluekehittämistä voi tarkastella taloudellisten,...

Tämä artikkeli on ensimmäinen raportointi kesäkuussa 2018 neljässä ammattikorkeakoulussa1 toteutetusta Webropol-kyselystä, jossa selvitettiin sosionomi (ylempi AMK) -tutkinnon suorit-taneiden sijoittumista työmarkkinoille, heidän arvioitaan sosiaalialalla tarvittavien kvalifikaa-tioiden tärkeydestä sekä työllistymisvisioistaan 2010-luvun soten aika...

In health and social care, ethical competence is one of the core competences that is increasingly studied through E-learning. Dilemma discussions have previously been found to be the most effective method for advancing ethical decision-making. This paper introduces a pedagogical model for professional ethics course based on blended learning. Classr...

Participatory budgeting (PB) is an increasingly popular method for enhancing citizen participation in allocating public resources and engaging citizens in urban development. This paper aims to examine an experiment involving PB that used a digital platform as a tool to involve citizens in submitting and voting on proposals for budget allocation in...

Opetuskokeilussa pyrittiin soveltamaan integrativisen pedaogiikan mukaisesti eri tiedonlajeja motivoivan haastattelun oppimisessa.

Motivoiva haastattelu on sosiaali- ja terveydenhuollon kentällä laajasti käytössä oleva ammatillisen keskustelun menetelmä, jota tyypillisesti opiskellaan täydennyskoulutuksessa. Tässä artikkelissa kuvataan ja arvioidaan ylemmän ammattikorkeakoulututkinnon opinnoissa toteutettua opetuskokeilua, jossa opiskeltiin motivoivaa haastattelua simulaatiope...

In this case study, we aimed to investigate residents’ agency through their participation in the development of their residential area in the city of Espoo, Finland. With the aid of seven themes, we identified by thematic analysis five types of residents in terms of agency: free floaters, home troops and helpers, representative information brokers,...

Eriytyneiden asuinalueiden kehittäminen edellyttää kaupunkisuunnittelun ja yhteisökehittämisen integroimista toisiinsa ja siihen sopivia menetelmiä, jotka tukevat kansalaisten osallisuutta. Asukaspajat tarjoavat paikallisyhteisöjen eheytymistä ja asukkaiden kokemuksellisen tiedon hyödyntämistä edistävän osallistumisrakenteen. Asukaspajoissa tuetaan...

Urban areas are often characterized by complex problems, such as social and economic deprivation, segregation, or bureaucratic administration. Urban living laboratories provide a promising approach to redefining and tackling such problems in novel ways by enabling bottom-up innovation with various actors. The present study examined an urban living...

Empowerment can be seen both as a process and a goal of Participatory Action Research (PAR). While most studies have focused on outcomes of empowerment, the process of empowerment has received little attention. We argue that participants’ empowerment can be enhanced through purposeful interventions at different stages of empowerment process involvi...

Urban living labs (ULL) challenge researchers and developers with bottom-up approach and diverse problems which require appropriate tools for innovation management. The Change Laboratory® (CL) is such a promising method which has widely been used in organizational development but not yet applied in living lab contexts. The present paper describes t...

ABSTRACT: The aim of this study is to investigate residents’ activism in a suburban area through concepts of individual and relational agency with 30 interviews. Relational agency was realized through working with others and engaging with dispositions of others and it was supported by individual agency: prosocial motivations, shared plans and perse...

There is a growing trend to involve citizens in city development to make urban areas more suitable to their needs and prevent social problems. City centres and neighbourhoods have increasingly been serving as regional living labs, which are ideal platforms to explore the needs of users as residents and citizens. This article examines the characteri...

There is a growing trend to involve citizens in city development to make urban areas more suitable to their needs and prevent social problems. City centres and neighbourhoods have increasingly been serving as regional living labs, which are ideal platforms to explore the needs of users as residents and citizens. This article examines the characteri...

The aim of this study was to examine whether personal value priorities, measured by Schwartz et al.’s method, change during higher education, whether moral reasoningmeasured by the DIT develops and whether values predict gain in moral development. Moreover, we explored the simultaneous changes in value priorities and moral reasoning. Our sample con...

Koulutuksen Innovaatio & Integraatio-hanke KOULII on koulutusyhtymä Omnian ja Laurea-ammattikorkeakoulun yhteishanke, jonka tarkoituksena on ollut kehittää ammatillisen toisen asteen ja ammattikorkeakoulun yhteistyötä osana alueellista innovaatiojärjestelmää. Hankkeessa on kehitetty opettajien tutkimus-, kehittä-mis-ja innovaatio-osaamista palvelum...

Koulii (Innovation and Integration of Education) is a collaborative project of Laurea UAS and Omnia (the Joint Authority of Education in Espoo Region) funded by European Social Fund and Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment in 2010–2012. The project aims at developing collaboration between vocational training and higher edu...

The aim of this study was to investigate relationships between care and justice reasoning, dispositional empathy variables and meta‐ethical thinking among 128 students from a university of applied sciences. The measures were Skoe’s Ethic of Care Interview, the Defining Issues Test, Davis’s Interpersonal Reactivity Index and Meta‐Ethical Questionnai...

The aim of this study was to clarify the relationships between empathy variables, personal values and moral reasoning. The impact of empathic concern, perspective taking and personal values measured by the Portrait Value Questionnaire on moral schemas measured by the Defining Issues Test was investigated among 599 students from a university of appl...

In August 2006, Laurea concluded an extensive curriculum reform, which led to the creation of a shared competence-based core curriculum for the whole university. During the reform, a core curriculum model was created, which produces service innovations and competence, safeguards and facilitates the fulfilment ofLaurea’s strategies. All degree progr...

This article examines real‐life moral conflicts from the perspective of the ethic of care. Fifty‐six (Time 1) and 57 (Time 2) real‐life dilemmas provided by students representing different fields of study were analysed in terms of level of care reasoning according to Skoe's Ethic of Care Interview. The results showed that antisocial temptation and...

Moral reasoning of 57 (Time 1) and 59 (Time 2) nursing, social-work and law-enforcement students was investigated in terms of care and justice reasoning about hypothetical and real-life dilemmas. The analysis methods were the Ethic of Care Interview, the Moral Judgment Interview, Lyons' Moral Orientation Scheme and Wark and Krebs' classification of...

Tässä artikkelissa kuvaamme moraalintutkimuksen kehitystä tutkimuksen pohjalta 1900-luvun kahtena viimeisenä vuosikymmenenä sekä valotamme oikeudenmukaisuus- ja huolenpitoajattelun suhdetta.

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