The course aims to provide the basic notions on welfare in Italy starting from an approach that combines the classic division by areas of intervention (pensions, work, health, social assistance) with a historical-systematic setting that highlights in particular the political dynamics in a comparative perspective and with a possible online integration. In addition, it offers 2 insights on a phenomenon that is largely unprecedented, at least in our country, such as corporate welfare, according to a systemic approach that starts from the centrality of long-term relationships and which highlights the dual objective of employee satisfaction and improvement of the image of companies in the local area and on the basis of an important example of the level of Welfare-Net of Padua, and the social doctrine of the Catholic Church on the themes of work, human association and health, understood in a meaning not purely human, but in a broader ecological sense.

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Social network work consists in managing / facilitating complex interactions aimed at solving (or preventing) life problems. These interactions concern services and professional operators, as well as the common people involved in difficult situations. The program, with the cases proposed in the adopted book, shows how this function of "relational guide" can be concretely realized. After a presentation of the fundamental concepts of the network method, we will analyze an articulated case studies, showing how the relational approach can be applied both to individual problem situations and to collective projects. The aim is to prepare social workers to apply the network method in case work and also in community work.