Objectives of the course are:
1) to reinforce in the student the trifocal perspective of the professional social service with a) the deepening of the focus on person and family and the knowledge of the main professional tools, and b) the development of the skills to be used in the organizational and in community work;
2) provide the student with the basis for an evaluation approach.
At the end of the course the student:
- knows the organizational contexts in which the work of the social worker takes place, and the main theoretical approaches to the organizations
- knows how to orientate itself in primary and secondary networks, with particular attention to the integration between social and health networks
- knows the fundamentals and history of community social service
- knows the fundamentals of evaluation in the aid process, projects and services.