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Professional Master’s Degree Students’ Perceptions on the Changes Digitalisation Imposes on Counselling in the Social and Health Care Sector

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  • Piia Silvennoinen

    (Unit of Digital Education and Master Programmes, Laurea University of Applied Sciences, 02650 Espoo, Finland)

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The study portrays the social and health care master’s students’ ( N = 19) perceptions on the changes in work practices due to digitalisation, with a special focus on online counselling. Furthermore, the data include thoughts on the impact digitalised interaction, i.e., online counselling, has on their work and professional identities. The students studied how the motivational interviewing method combined with a solution-focused counselling approach is applicable in online settings by using simulation pedagogy. The data consisted of students’ learning diaries. Furthermore, the data were analysed using inductive content analysis. The results show that the digitalisation of work practices demands blended professionalism, which allows the professional to work both face-to-face and online with clients. In addition, the education of social and health care professionals needs to address the lack of competences and skills in digitalised work practices and provide a conceptual and practical understanding of blended professionalism in the sector.

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  • Piia Silvennoinen, 2020. "Professional Master’s Degree Students’ Perceptions on the Changes Digitalisation Imposes on Counselling in the Social and Health Care Sector," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(17), pages 1-10, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:17:y:2020:i:17:p:6243-:d:405104
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