Social Work and Personal Social Services

The fundamental conceptual categories for Social Work and Personal Social Services Policies on which to base the preparation are, indicatively, the following:

• social action, agency, capacity for action
• Share capital
• Care Management
• Community Work
• Experiential skills
• deviance and social control
• Human Rights and Social Justice
• Conflict and mediation
• Marginalisation and social inclusion
• Ethics of care
• Group work and self/mutual help
• Globalization and social policies
• interculture
• poverty
• liberalisation in social services
• social relationship and helping relationship
• front network
• Social Work Assessment
• solidarity and social cohesion
• stigma
• Disadvantage
• Third sector
• welfare state, welfare mix, welfare society

A non-binding orientation bibliography for the preparation of the exam is also provided below.

Social Work

Folgheraiter, F. (2011). Fundamentals of relational methodology. The social logic of help. Trento: Erickson.

Raineri, M. L. and Corradini F. (2022).  Social Service Procedures and Guidelines. Fourth edition. Trento: Erickson. (Recommended for those coming from basic training courses other than LT-39 in Social Work)

Forrester, D., Wilkins, D., & Whittaker, C. (2021). Motivational interviewing for working with children and families: A practical guide for early intervention and child protection. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Krumer-Nevo, M. (2020). Radical hope: Poverty-aware practice for social work. London: Policy Press. Trad it. (2021) Radical Hope. Social Work and Poverty, Trento: Erickson.

Parker, J. and Ashencaen Crabtree, S., (2018). Social Work with Disadvantaged and Marginalised People. London: Sage.

Social Work Research

The texts below provide some examples of empirical research of Social Work.

Cabiati, E. (2015). Social workers in child protection: what they think, what they do, how they are. An investigation in Lombardy. Trento: Erickson.

Corradini, F., Avancini, G., & Raineri, M. L. (2019). Social Work with non-self-sufficient people. A qualitative research on "cases that went well", Trento: Erickson.

Corradini, F. (2016). The removal of minors: paths and outcomes. A pilot study in Emilia-Romagna, Trento: Erickson.

Landi, C. (2019). Family foster care in Lombardy. A quantitative research in the Juvenile Court of Milan, Trento: Erickson.

Raineri, M.L and Calcaterra, V. (2016). Participatory Foster Care in the voices of the protagonists. An evaluative research, Trento: Erickson.

Raineri, M.L and Calcaterra, V. (2022). The participation of children, young people and families in Child Protection Services: how social workers see it, "Studi di sociologia : LX, 4, 2022, Milano: Vita e Pensiero, pp. 1827-7896.

Social Policy

Donati P. (2012), Family Policy: A Relational Approach, Milan: FrancoAngeli.

Colozzi, P. D. I., & Donati, P. (2006). Third sector and enhancement of social capital in Italy: places and actors. Milan: FrancoAngeli.

Gori G. (ed., 2022), Le politiche del welfare sociale, Mondadori Università, Milan.

Pesenti L. (2022), Territorial co-planning and health poverty. Uun ambito di sperimentazione per un welfare responsabile, in "Studi di Sociologia", 1, DOI 000309_2022_0001_0077-371482

Rossi P., Colombo M., (2019), Won't it be an adventure? The innovation of public-private partnerships and the co-design of social welfare services, in "Stato e Mercato", 117 (3), pp 411-447.

Ferrera M. (ed., 2019), Social policies, Il Mulino, Bologna (in particular chapters I-IV-V)

Sociology and Methodology of Social Research

Donati P. (ed.) (2010), Sociologia. An introduction to the study of society. New edition, Padua: CEDAM.

Smelser N. (2011), Manuale di Sociologia, Bologna: Il Mulino.

Giddens A., Sutton P.W. (2014) Fundamentals of Sociology. Fifth edition. Bologna: Il Mulino.

Izzo A. (2005), History of Sociological Thought, 3 vols. (Origins, Classics, Contemporaries), Bologna: Il Mulino.

Clark, T., Foster, L., Bryman, A., & Sloan, L. (2021). Bryman's social research methods. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Corbetta P. (2003), La ricerca sociale, 4 voll., Bologna: Il Mulino.