Teaching code

4S00726

Credits

9

Coordinator

Sergio Cecchi

Language

Italian

Courses Single

Authorized

Moodle Seminars 0

The teaching is organized as follows:

Learning objectives

THEORY Knowledge and understanding - Knowledge and understanding of the bio-psycho-social roots of the individual needs - Knowledge and understanding of the different types of social intervention - Knowledge and understanding of the different needs assessment methodologies applicable to groups and communities Ability to apply knowledge and understanding - Ability to carry out the needs assessment - Ability to set clear and realistic targets for social work interventions - Ability to properly implement social service interventions, to evaluate their efficacy and, if necessary, to revise their goals. LEARNING OUTCOMES At the end of the course students will be able to assess the needs of groups and communities; they will be able to recognize the role played in their definition by macro-social factors such as economic conditions labor market conditions, urban spatial organization, welfare state conditions; They will have acquired the knowledge necessary to intervene against social inequalities; they will be able to evaluate their own action and to revise their own methodologies and goals. LABORATORY Knowledge and understanding - Knowledge and understanding of the principles concerning the listening attitude - Knowledge and understanding concerning the interpretation of the different organizational cultures collaborating in providing social services interventions Ability to apply knowledge and understanding - Ability to develop a collaborative and constructive relationship both with the user and the other professional roles involved in the helping processes. - Ability to write a social work report LEARNING OUTCOMES The aim of the course is to provide students with the knowledge and skills necessary to autonomously analyze the dynamics concerning the social work organization in which they are doing their professional traineeship. At the same time, the course wants to make students acquire capacities to adapt to a social work organization and to collaborate with a working team. The course wants also to elicit and promote students interpretation of users individual and collective problems and needs, their capacity to project work plans and to collect and activate institutional and non-institutional resources. Some other knowledge and skills the course wants to offer concern the developing of a collaborative and constructive relationship both with the user and the other professional roles involved in the helping processes.

Prerequisites and basic notions

Having passed the exams of Methods and techniques of social work I and II and the professional internship of the 2nd year.

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Criteria for the composition of the final grade

The final grade will be given by the evaluation of the written exam. The written test will consist of 3 open questions in the following areas:
1) Theory and history of community social work; 2) Operational methodology of community social work; 3) New policy configurations; 3) The Welfare Society.
the written test will last one hour.
Object of evaluation will be the theoretical knowledge possessed by the students, the level of their scientific language and their ability to make conceptual connections between the contents of the course.