Social Services Orientation Laboratory
PROF. STEFANIA DEFERRARI; PROF. ELENA CABIATI; PROF. ELISABETTA DANIOTTI; PROF.
BEATRICE SALMOIRAGHI; PROF. MANUELA TOMISICH; PROF. PAOLO VERONESI
MODULE BY PROF. ELENA CABIATI; PROF. ELISABETTA DANIOTTI; PROF. BEATRICE
SALMOIRAGHI
COURSE AIMS
The development and definition of ones personal and professional image.
The processing and awareness of ones personal motivation for choosing a course of
study; acquiring awareness of self through the use of appropriate tools; an
introduction to the world of social service, including direct experience attained
through an apprenticeship period (75 hours for the year).
COURSE CONTENT
The meetings incorporated in the "Social Services Orientation Laboratory" course
will seek to investigate each student’s individual motivations and desire to work
for the benefit of others, a sensitive area and one requiring action and
determination.
The weekly meetings will take place in 3 sub-groups within the overall class group,
in other words, subdividing the first year students into 3 working subgroups,
specifically aimed at improving students’ involvement in the meetings as well as
developing a reciprocal knowledge of each other and a deeper knowledge of
themselves.
It is within this environment of personal and group discovery that students will
conduct various jobs and activities, both intra and extra group-based, aimed at
promoting a more complete and richer personal experimentation.
The apprenticeship period will offer a true means of gaining self-awareness, as
well as providing a global analysis and evaluation methodological tool.
The student will participate in relationship self-experimentation, which – in turn –
will stimulate a self-mobilisation towards working in the personal service
professions, including social services, through a process of caring for the other and
their relative needs.
The course also aims to introduce analytical methods related to actions and the
addressing of perceived needs, as an initial phase within the assistance process;
students will also conduct empirical experimentation on themselves within various
relational contexts.
The course will, furthermore, include in-depth individual interviews with the
students.
Course duration: 60 hours for the year.
TEACHING METHOD
Weekly lectures, practical teaching sessions, group/testimony seminars, laboratory
work, a training apprenticeship, audio-visuals and role-playing.
ASSESSMENT METHOD
Oral exam at the end of the academic year, correlated with a written thesis on the
experiences gained during their apprenticeship.
Evaluations during lectures.
NOTES
Further information can be found on the lecturer's
webpage at
http://docenti.unicatt.it/web/searchByName.do?language=ENG, or on the Faculty notice
board.
MODULE: GROUP LABORATORY ON EMOTIONS (1ST YEAR): PROF. STEFANIA DEFERRARI; PROF.
MANUELA TOMISICH; PROF. PAOLO VERONESI
COURSE AIMS
The Emotions Group will represent a part of the Social Services Orientation
Laboratory, and aims to offer students a space and time in which to express their
feelings and emotions with regard to the professional choices they have made, their
dealings with the reality of need and providing service to others. This very closeknit and secure group, led by an expert moderator, will provide the ideal venue to
raise, explore and investigate those topics the student will learn about during the
course of the academic year and will, therefore, verify their interest in doing this
kind of work as well as the subjective implications. The Emotions Group will
enable the student to compare his image of the profession and how it is in reality,
so understanding the connection between the academic choice he made and his
own personal characteristics.
By attending this laboratory, involving like-minded individuals in a confidential
setting, the course aims to provide students with a sufficiently protective
environment in which to ask questions, express any fears, doubts, revelations about
the importance and responsibility involved in this profession, so that each student
may best prepare themselves for their future social service work.
TEACHING METHOD
The Emotions Group foresees 7 meetings in small groups, each lasting an hour and a
half, for a total of about 20 hours, spread over the second semester.
The methodology used in the group includes active involvement techniques such as roleplaying, illustrative drawings, etc.
ASSESSMENT METHOD
An individual oral assessment, in the form approved / not approved.
NOTES
Further information can be found on the lecturer's webpage at
http://docenti.unicatt.it/web/searchByName.do?language=ENG, or on the Faculty notice
board.