The training objectives and expected learning outcomes of the course are as follows:
- identify the origins and developments of the social service;
- to know how to place the social service in the field of social policy;
- to know the developments of the welfare system in relation to the most recent legislative changes;
- to know the developments of the social worker's profession;
- to know the historical-philosophical assumptions of the discipline;
- to know the approaches and working models of social work and to know how to place them within professional life;
- to acquire the concepts, the theoretical and methodological perspectives of social services;
- to know how to identify the objectives, functions and activities of the social service in relation to the different areas of application;
- to know the system of social and health services in Italy and the related areas of intervention.