MTSS22 - METHODS AND TECHNIQUES OF SOCIAL WORK

The teaching of Social Service Methods and Techniques adheres to the professional profile of the Degree Course, sharing its general objectives through a thematic articulation of its topics, which will be presented and analyzed as the main methodological and operational aspects of welfare in its relational dimension, institutional, professional and instrumental. The training objectives of the Course are to acquire adequate knowledge:
1) of the "competence to act" typical of welfare professionalism;
2) the protection of the person in all forms of hardship provided for by regulations and applied studies on social change;
3) the perspective of social planning and intervention for social and health integration and personal protection.
Furthermore, themes and models of the social work profession will be explored in depth, such as role identity, documentation, the relationship and the helping process, the professional interview, the home visit and the appropriate application of research and research tools and methods. social intervention typical of the different areas of socio-health integration.
At the end of the course, the student must possess knowledge and skills relating to the role identity of the help professional, the network methodology, the trifocality and subsidiarity criteria of the professional system of social services put into practice, the interaction and social and relational intervention on the person, in line with the training of a professional figure responsible for individual social planning and intervention on the person in the different areas of socio-health integration of the welfare system services.

Knowledge and understanding
- has a professionalizing knowledge of the figure of the Social Worker and of the professional methodology and techniques used in Social Service
- possesses a broad theoretical knowledge of interaction, evaluation and planning models of interventions for the person
- distinguishes the different social policies and interventions according to the areas of response and related needs

Autonomy of judgement
- connects social problems and needs to the related response methods of professionals
- autonomously interprets the relationship between theoretical models and applied interventions
- compare the knowledge acquired with the most recent approaches, orienting and updating the overall framework on teaching topics
- make their general and specific considerations on the course topics in oral form, showing that they connect them in an interdisciplinary way

Communication skills
- Uses the disciplinary language of welfare and social policies
- Expresses concepts on the topics of the course and carries out personal reflections in a congruent and appropriate way with respect to what has been learned.