Università Roma Tre

Objectives of the training workshop - Develop the capacity for reflection on the motivations and expectations related to the choice of a profession of aid;
- Learning the ability to work in groups, encouraging discussion and collaboration;
- Gain a preliminary understanding of the local services through the interview with social workers working in different public and private sectors;
- Make a first knowledge of the social competence of the social service issues.

The program The Laboratory, as guidance phase of orientation is a prerequisite to training the II and III year and start the process of learning from experience through lectures and group work:

Frontal lessons :
- The relationship between theory and practice in university education and in the profession;
- Actors and role of the internship (the university, the trainee, the supervisor, the institution);
- Organization and rules of the internship;
- The integrated system of health and social services and the role of social work;
- the role of the Social Service in collaboration with the Judicial Authority (Guardianship, Curatorship, Support Administration, Juvenile Court, Civil Court)
- Knowledge of users and the types of needs, weaknesses and problems that belong to the social service;

Group Workshop:
It is expected, in addition to hours of lectures, outside activity conducted in subgroup.
Each group of students is assigned a territory, and the names of fellow social workers, who work in health and social services and have given their availability, to which administered a structured interview and detect:

- Background information on institutional and organizational references of social and health services;
- Social problems prevailing in the reference territory
- Planned and resources activated in the plan area;
- Role of social work.

Bibliography
Handouts end/or slide the teacher provided.
Brutte Storie Bella Gente , Gianfranco Mattera, San paolo, Storie vere
Per altre Vite, Paolo Pajer, Il Ciliegio
Ordine Nazionale degli assistenti Sociali “Codice Deontologico dell’Assistente Sociale”, 2009
AA.VV. “Dizionario di Servizio Sociale”, Carocci, Roma, 2004
Dellavalle Marilena, “Il Tirocinio nella formazione al servizio sociale. un modello di apprendimento dall’esperienza”, Carocci, Faber, Roma, 2011

Reading suggested:

A. Bartolomei, A.L. Passera, L’assistente sociale. manuale di servizio sociale professionale, CieRe, Roma, 2010 (III parte).