METHODS OF SOCIAL SERVICE 2

The course is based on the Social Work Theoretical disciplines and focuses the Social Work’s Assessment themes and the methodologies. These issues are typical of the planning dimension of the interventions aimed to help individuals, families and communities. In the first part of the course the students will learn the main tools utilized to help groups and communities. The course explains the different approaches and theoretical models of evaluation, The course focuses different kinds of assessment related to practical situations to support connections between theory and practice. The characteristics of social projects, the connections between theoretical models and the strategies to achieves social aims will be addressed. In the final part of the course the students will learn social programming and different approaches to deal with meso and macro social issues.

The students, at the end of the course, will know the main theoretical approaches to evaluation, planning and social programming. They will be able to build a social work evaluation design and monitoring process of evaluation. They will refer to the main approaches and theoretical models regarding the assessment of social services’ efficacy. They will acquire social work key point of view to make connection between theoretical knowledge and practice.

It is advised to have sustained the exam of Methodologies of Social Work 1 but it is not a mandatory prerequisite.

Groupwork;
Networking;
Community work;
The different Models of evaluation based on Social Work Theoretical Paradigms
The methods of evaluation and the different fields of application;
The desing, implementation and coordination of social projects;
Monitoring and evaluation of the results of social planning;
Programming social services and social policies focusing the concepts of well-being-health, citizens' rights, social cohesion, social capital and social security;
The contexts and models of social programming;
Principle of subsidiarity in programming.

Zilianti A., Rovai B., Assistenti sociali professionisti. Metodologia del lavoro sociale, Carocci, 2007 rist. 2021, capitoli da studiare per l'esame: 5, 6, 7, 8, gli altri sono da leggere;
De Ambrogio U., Bertotti T., Merlini F., L'assistente sociale e la valutazione. Esperienze e strumenti. Carocci Faber Servizio sociale, ed. 2007 rist. 2015, capitoli da studiare per l'esame: 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, gli altri sono da leggere;
Giorgio Merlo, La programmazione sociale. Principi, metodi e strumenti, Carocci Faber Servizio sociale, 2014, capitoli da studiare per l'esame: 2,3 par. 3, 4, 9, 10, 11; gli altri capitoli sono da leggere.
Materiali delle lezioni disponibili sulla pagina Moodle del corso.
Testi di approfondimento (non obbligatori per l'esame):
Liliana Leone, Miretta Prezza, Costruire e valutare progetti nel sociale. Manuale operativo per chi lavora su progetti in campo sanitario, sociale,
educativo e culturale, Franco Angeli, Milano, 23a ristampa 2017;
Francesca Corradini, L'assessment nel servizio sociale. Metodi relazionali di valutazione e indagine sociale con i minori e le famiglie. Erikson, Trento, 2018

Test will include both closed questions and open questions. It will consist of two parts: 1. general questions; 2.specific questions practical questions.

Frontal lessons
Simulations
Workshops

Italian

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This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Human capital, health, education" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development