20802038 - Industrial experience

The internship is guided learning experience in the reality of social services that enables the observation and experimentation the role and professional functions in their various dimensions. The goal of the internship is to promote the development of skills and abilities that characterize an appropriate Act professional. The internship is an experience that takes place in a public or private social service system where there is a professional social service and is led by a social worker. The internship starts with the support of a teacher tutor who monitors the conduct and is accompanied by both classroom activities both from individual counseling. Commitment to external training amounted to 225 hours.
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Programme

Training goals
First trainee-ship is the first field experience for the students, in the services in which social workers apply themselves. In this path, students have a double support, from both an external social worker and an academic tutor.
Specific training goals will be:
- let the student thinks on her/his own motivations and expectations on her/his university choices and on her/his professional future;
- let grow the student's capacity to reflect on the relations dynamics, with other social operators, users, and with all the others relations that she/he could start during the progress of the social service where she/he is inserted. Then share her/his worries, doubts, and expectations on her/his experience;
- consolidate the capacity of the student to work in team and to learn through the group exercitations;
- promote the connection between theory and practice and stimulate in the students an exploratory approach with curiosity and interest in the profession and in the social ambit;
- encourage the comparison, the sharing and the discussions of situations and events in common verified during the practical experience of the students.

Course program
During the talks and the lectures, the operative reality and the territorial distribution of the services who gave the availability to host trainees, will be showed to the students; lectures on specific aspects of trainee-ship will be made, to promote the pursue of training goals.


Core Documentation

Testi di consultazione:
BINI L., Documentazione e servizio sociale, Carocci, Roma, 2003.
DELLAVALLE M., Il tirocinio nella formazione al servizio sociale, Carocci, Roma, 2011.
RICCUCCI M., Scrivere per il servizio sociale, Carocci, Roma, 2009.