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Study Plan
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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.
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Social Service Methods and Techniques I - PRINCIPI E FONDAMENTI (2016/2017)
Teaching code
4S00733
Credits
3
Coordinator
Not yet assigned
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
SPS/07 - GENERAL SOCIOLOGY
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The teaching is organized as follows:
Lezioni
Esercitazioni
Learning outcomes
The objective of this course is to introduce the study of social work as a discipline and as a profession. The scientific and disciplinary foundations of social work, the object of study and of intervention in social work, the philosophical and ethical foundations of values in social work will be illustrated in detail.
Program
1. Social work in Italy: advent and phases of development.
2. Needs: definitions, features, theoretical approaches.
3. Values and principles in social work.
4. The object of study and intervention in social work.
5. The professional social work: definition, aims, functions, scope of activities.
6. The tri-dimensionality of the object of social work: aims and values of the profession and their relationships with the organizational context.
Fundamental bibliography:
− NEVE E., Il Servizio Sociale. Fondamenti e cultura di una professione, Carocci, Roma, 2008.
− FILIPPINI S., BIANCHI S. (a cura di), Le responsabilità professionali dell’assistente sociale, CarocciFaber, Roma, 2013, capitoli 1 e 2.
Reference bibliography:
− BORTOLI B., Teoria e storia del servizio sociale, NIS, Roma, 1997.
− PIERONI G., DAL PRA PONTICELLI M., Introduzione al servizio sociale. Storia, principi e deontologia, Carocci, Roma, 2005.
− FARGION S., Il servizio sociale. Storia, temi e dibattiti, Laterza, Roma, 2009.
− PERINO A., Il servizio sociale. Strumenti, attori e metodi, FrancoAngeli, Milano, 2010.
− BORTOLI B., I giganti del lavoro sociale, Erickson, Trento, 2013.
− REAMER F G., Social work values and ethics. Columbia University Press, New York, 2013.
Examination Methods
Written exam.
