PSSS22 - FOUNDATIONS AND STRUCTURES OF SOCIAL WORK

courses
ID:
PSSS22
Duration (hours):
36
CFU:
6
SSD:
SOCIOLOGIA GENERALE
Located in:
CHIETI
Url:
SOCIAL WORK/CORSO GENERICO Year: 2
Year:
2025
Course Catalogue:
https://unich.coursecatalogue.cineca.it/af/2025?co...

Overview

Date/time interval

Primo Semestre (08/10/2025 - 31/01/2026)

Syllabus

Course Objectives


Expected learning outcomes
At the end of the course study students must gain the knowledge and the skills related to the course of study objectives in Social work.
The learning objective is related to the knowledge of Welfare systems and Social work.

Knowledge and understanding ability.
At the end of the course the student must know:
- Origins and developments of welfare systems;
- Social services in Italy and their transformations;
- The reforms of the Seventies, Eighties and Nineties of the twentieth century;
- The Law 328/2000 and the reform of Title V of the Constitution;
- The development of the social worker's profession in Italy;
- The objectives, functions and activities of the social services;
- The main theoretical approaches and models of social services;
- The methodological process of the social work;
- Principles, foundations and historical-philosophical principles of social work;
- The system of social and health services in Italy;
- The fields of social intervention.

Autonomy of judgment
At the end of the course the student must:
- identify the origins and developments of the social service;
- place the social service in the sphere of social policy;
- know the developments of the welfare system in relation to the most recent legislative changes;
- know the developments of the profession as social worker;
- know the historical-philosophical assumptions of the discipline;
- know the approaches and operational models of social work and know how to place them within the sphere of professional activity;
- acquire the concepts, the theoretical and methodological perspectives of the social service;
- know how to identify the objectives, functions and activities of the social service in relation to the different fields of application;
- know the system of social and health services in Italy and the related areas of intervention.

Communication skills
At the end of the course the student must gain a correct command of the specific language referred to the studied contents; know the concepts and the operational models related to social work.

Course Prerequisites


No specific knowledge and skills are needed and no prerequisites are required.

Teaching Methods


Lectures. Possible use of slides.

Assessment Methods


The final assessment consists of an oral exam on the entire syllabus. The aim is to assess students’ skills and in particular, an understanding of the issues discussed during the course, an appropriate knowledge of the bibliography in the course programme, a correct command of the specific language as well as critical and methodological abilities will be evaluated. The grading scale goes from 1 to 30 with honours (cum laude): 1-17 fail, 18-21 sufficient, 22-24 fair, 25-27 good, 28-29 very good, 30-30 with honours (cum laude) excellent.

Texts


1) Bartolomei A., Passera A.L. (2011), L'assistente sociale. Manuale di servizio sociale professionale, Edizioni CieRre, Roma, (part. I, III, IV).
2) Pieroni G., Dal Pra Ponticelli M. (2005 reprint 2025), Introduzione al servizio sociale. Storia, principi, deontologia, Carocci Faber, Roma (chapters 1-2-3-4-5-6-7).
3) Filippini S. (a cura di) (2020 reprint 2024), Nuovo codice deontologico dell’assistente sociale: le responsabilità professionali, Carocci, Roma, (chapters 1-2-3).

Contents


The teaching is focused on the principles and structures of social services in Italy. The course provides students with knowledge on the origins and developments of welfare systems, placing the social services in the context of social policy interventions.
During the course the processes of development of the social worker's profession are reviewed, knowledge is provided on the principles and foundations of the profession, and the historical-philosophical assumptions of the discipline are defined.
The analysis continues by focusing on theoretical approaches, operational models, objectives, functions and social service activities. The methodological perspectives of social work are also analyzed.

Course Language

Italian

More information


The program is the same both for attending and non-attending students.

Degrees

Degrees

SOCIAL WORK 
Bachelor’s Degree
3 years
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