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Here you can find information on the organisational aspects of the Programme, lecture timetables, learning activities and useful contact details for your time at the University, from enrolment to graduation.
Study Plan
This information is intended exclusively for students already enrolled in this course.If you are a new student interested in enrolling, you can find information about the course of study on the course page:
Laurea in Scienze del servizio sociale - Enrollment from 2025/2026The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
Please select your Study Plan based on your enrollment year.
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1 module to be chosen among the followingLegend | Type of training activity (TTA)
TAF (Type of Educational Activity) All courses and activities are classified into different types of educational activities, indicated by a letter.
Methods and techniques of Social Work III - TEORIA (2020/2021)
Teaching code
4S00726
Credits
6
Coordinator
Not yet assigned
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
SPS/07 - GENERAL SOCIOLOGY
To show the organization of the course that includes this module, follow this link: Course organization
The teaching is organized as follows:
Lezione
Laboratorio
Learning outcomes
GENERAL OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE
Knowledge and understanding:
- knowledge and understanding concerning the contextualization of the need and the recognition of its biopsychosocial nature
- knowledge and understanding of strategies for the detection and analysis of the need for social groups and communities
- knowledge and understanding of the different types of social intervention
- knowledge and understanding related to one's listening attitude
- knowledge related to the reading and interpretation of the different organizational cultures involved in the provision of aid intervention
ABILITY TO APPLY KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING:
- perform needs assessment
- draw up a social service report
- clearly and realistically establish the objectives of their intervention
- implement the social intervention with methodological correctness and appropriateness, evaluate its effectiveness and, if necessary, revise its objectives
- activate all the sensibilities necessary to guarantee a collaborative relationship with the users as well as with the other figures involved in the intervention
- draw up social service relations, intervention projects and reporting required by the institution to which they belong
Speicif Objectives.
The course aims to provide the conceptual and methodological basis for acquiring the professional skills necessary for future social workers to interpret and implement community interventions.
The course also aims to stimulate a critical reflection on the role that the social work could exercise towards immigrants and to some highly stigmatized minority groups, such as Roma and Sinti, always with a view to community action.
In general, there are two objectives of teaching:
1. acquire a "political" vision of social work intervention, considering the community as a subject to be mobilized also in defense of the social rights of citizens and, in particular, of those belonging to the weakest political groups and politically and economically;
2. acquire knowledge and tools on community analysis, on the involvement of the community in actions to protect the health of citizens, including through the mobilization of associations, committees and groups.
Program
The program of the course is centered on the deepening of the following points:
1. Historical origins and theoretical foundations of social community work;
2. The dimensions of community social work:
2a. the "operational" dimension (breakdown and preventive) - community work as a tool for problem solving -
2b. the "political" dimension - community work as an instrument for defending social rights and changing political relations;
3. The analysis and mobilization of the community:
3a. mapping of community resources;
3b. group work as a tool for mobilizing community resources.
3c. work with the family.
4. Community work in some particular operational areas:
4a. Community approaches in addictions and alcoholism;
5. Social Work in Third Sector.
Bibliography
| Activity | Author | Title | Publishing house | Year | ISBN | Notes |
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| Lezione | Martini E., Torti A. | Fare lavoro di comunità. Riferimenti teorici e strumenti operativi | Carocci | 2003 | ||
| Lezione | Caduri Aviva e Weiss-Gal Idit | Social Workers Who Work With and Without Volunteers: Comparison of Perceptions, Organisational Culture, Training and Experience | Articolo pubblicato su british Journal of Social Work, n° 45 del 2015. | |||
| Laboratorio | Cecchi Sergio | Il Welfare in Comune. Una ricerca sul servizio sociale territoriale | Erickson | 2019 | 9788859020660 | |
| Laboratorio | Luca Fazzi | Social work in the public and non-profit sectors in Italy: what are the differences? | 2011 |
Examination Methods
The assessment of learning outcomes will be:
- a preliminary written assessment of the acquired knowledge and an integrative oral test to deepen the contents of the written test and to evaluate other parts of the study program.
The written test is aimed at ascertaining the knowledge of the topics in the program and the ability to critically read the role of the social service in the promotion of community resources.
Contents and methods for conducting the assessment tests
The questions of the written test can cover all the topics covered in the course. Three open questions will be asked concerning both the exam text and the articles indicated in the bibliography, as well as the contents of the material provided by the teacher during the course.
Each of the 3 questions will be assigned a score ranging from 0 to 10 points, for a total of 30 / 30ths in case of answers all correct.
ERASMUS students are asked to contact the teacher at the beginning of the courses to agree together the teaching methods and the assessment tests.
