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Servizio sociale internazionale, responsabilità locale e partecipazione comunitaria: un caso studio inTanzania.
No full textInternational social work is a field of professional practice that is widespread in various countries around the world, yet still little explored in the literature and little known as a specific field of action. Exploring its definition and its possible applications in practice, starting from the analysis of a social work case study within an international project, aims to encourage the consolidation of a flexible, inclusive and plural thinking and method, necessary both for social workers working abroad, or in international exchange projects, and for those working with foreign users, offering the opportunity to broaden horizons and at the same time to strengthen the roots of the profession
“Without social there is no health”: Social work perspectives in multidisciplinary healthcare
Full text linkThe pandemic has not just affected the health sphere: strong social effects of the emergency have added to the health risk, stressing on social relations and the deterioration of people’s living conditions, and making those who are already fragile more fragile. Notwithstanding, during the emergency following the COVID-19 pandemic the attention was focused, indeed understandably, on the health aspects, widening the already existing misalignment between the health interventions and the social ones. Emergency oriented efforts and resources more toward a clinical care approach (cure) than toward support for the social and the inclusion aspects (care). Reflecting on the specific area of health care that interacts with social care (and vice versa), shows how the medicalization in managing the emergency have undermined or, at least, weakened the global approach to the person and to vulnerability profiles that should inspire the socio-healthcare integration. The aim of this review is describing the relationship between the health and social systems and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on it: a review of studies on the role played by social work in the health sector before and during COVID-19 pandemic emergency shows how much potential there is still to be developed for social work in the health sector that acts together with the personal health services; a care that looks at the person within his or her relationships, community resources and environmental aspects requires an investment toward integration between hospital care, social services and local communities
Integrazione dei migranti
No full textIl termine “integrazione” nell’ambito degli studi sulle migrazioni, conosce una pluralità di accezioni, che deriva sia dalla molteplicità di variabili oggettive e soggettive che concorrono alla sua definizione, sia dalla sua interconnessione con i mutamenti politici e culturali costantemente in atto (partecipazione [3], inclusione giuridica, intervento civile e politico, cittadinanza, politiche sociali, convivenza democratica, diritti sociali ecc.).The term "integration" in the field of migration studies has a plurality of meanings, which derives both from the multiplicity of objective and subjective variables that contribute to its definition, and from its interconnection with the political and cultural changes constantly underway (participation [3], legal inclusion, civil and political intervention, citizenship, social policies, democratic coexistence, social rights, etc.)
Servizio sociale e cooperazione allo sviluppo
No full textL’internazionalizzazione dei problemi sociali ha sancito la rottura dei rigidi confini nazionali entro i quali, tradizionalmente, si muovevano le professioni di aiuto e, tra queste, il servizio sociale. L’essere costitutivamente una professione legata alla soddisfazione delle necessità sociali della popolazione e alla promozione del cambiamento sociale ha, difatti, comportato per il servizio sociale l’attivazione e lo sviluppo di percorsi metodologici e operativi in risposta al mutamento sociale in atto nell’ambito delle relazioni internazionali e delle politiche nazionali e internazionali di cooperazione tra i paesi del Nord e quelli del Sud del mondo.The internationalization of social problems has sanctioned the breaking of the rigid national borders within which, traditionally, the helping professions moved and, among these, the social service. Being constitutively a profession linked to the satisfaction of the social needs of the population and to the promotion of social change has, in fact, led to the activation and development of methodological and operational paths for the social service in response to the social change taking place in the international relations and national and international cooperation policies between the countries of the North and those of the South of the world
Trabajo Social en Italia: una profesión en constante desarrollo
No full textThe current landscape of Social Work has certainly changed since the 1980s: the profession enjoys general recognition, an established professional status and a university career that goes as far as a doctorate. The question raised by the profession no longer refers to the search for theoretical models of reference: the current challenges refer to the professional identity of the social worker in a postmodern social and labor context (Folgheriter, 2004) and to the climate of deprivation due to the redefinition of Well-being. In addition, social workers have to reckon with the transformations of social services and the drastic cutback in planning and innovation, due to the reduction in public spending in the social sector (Fazzi, 2010). Above all, as professionals hired in an ever more flexible way, they also experience the negative effects of the precariousness and monetization of social services, despite the fact that, however, they constitute the first point of contact with a public. co increasingly in need of assistance. The liberalization of public goods and the managerial implementation of services, the erosion of universal rights and contractual arrangements of social policy are some of the ongoing transformations involving Italian Welfare. The change is not limited to the alteration of working conditions, to which the services have to adapt; but, above all, it is necessary to examine the fundamental principles that once constituted Well-being, and that are now increasingly uncertain (Nothdufter, 2011). The service system is constantly evolving, especially in recent years, in which events such as earthquakes, pandemics and wars have added to the spread of new forms of poverty and new social and health vulnerabilities, to which Social Work Italian has started to respond and is developing updated roles and functions.El panorama actual del Trabajo Social ha cambiado ciertamente desde los años 80: la profesión goza de un reconocimiento general, de un estatus profesional establecido y de una carrera universitaria que llega hasta al doctorado. La cuestión que se plantea por la profesión ya no se refiere a la búsqueda de modelos teóricos de referencia: los desafíos actuales se refieren a la identidad profesional del trabajador social en un contexto social y laboral postmoderno (Folgheraiter, 2004) y al clima de privación económica debido a la redefinición del Bienestar. Además, los trabajadores sociales tienen que contar con las transformaciones de los servicios sociales y al drástico recorte de la planificación y la innovación, debido a la reducción del gasto público en el sector social (Fazzi, 2010). Sobre todo, como profesionales contratados de forma siempre más flexibles, viven tam- bién los efectos negativos de la precarización y la monetización de los servicios socia- les, a pesar de que, sin embargo, constituyan el primer punto de contacto con un públi- co cada vez más necesitado de asistencia. La liberalización de los bienes públicos y la implementación gerencial de los servicios, la erosión de los derechos universales y los arreglos contractuales de la política social son algunas de las transformaciones en curso que involucran al Bienestar italiano. El cambio no se limita a la alteración de las con- diciones de trabajo, a las que los servicios tienen que adaptarse; sino que, sobre todo, hay que examinar los principios fundamentales que antaño constituían el Bienestar, y que ahora son cada vez más inciertos (Nothdufter, 2011). El sistema de servicios está en constante evolución, sobre todo en los últimos años, en los que sucesos como terremo- tos, pandemias y guerras se han sumado a la propagación de nuevas pobrezas y nuevas vulnerabilidades sociales y sanitarias, a las que el Trabajo Social italiano ha empezado a responder y está desarrollando papeles y funciones actualizados
Didattica Speciale attraverso il Nuoto e la Pallanuoto
No full textDidattica Speciale attraverso il Nuoto e la Pallanuot
International Social Work: Professional Debates about Global and Local Practices
No full textInternational social work is still a work in progress and an arena with diverse definitions, interpretations, and directions. The international application of social work requires taking a multi-faceted view of the nature of social work and has implications for the international debate on values and ethics; the profession's firm commitment to the principles of human rights and social justice raises many questions about how these values may be perceived differently in relation to cultural and national contexts.
The increasing mobility of social workers across national borders, as well as posing challenges in terms of cultural adaptation and sometimes language competences, offers important opportunities to recognize the skills and the experiences which workers from other countries bring; and, at a more general level, increased opportunities for gaining an international perspective on the development of social work and social services
Caratterizzazione di un nuovo ruolo di CDKL5 nella sinapsi inibitoria e utilizzo di una possibile strategia terapeutica per i difetti legati alla mancanza di CDKL5
No full textMutations in the cyclin-dependent kinase like 5 gene (CDKL5) have been found in individuals with a
rare X-linked neurodevelopmental disorder, CDKL5 deficiency disorder (CDD), characterised by
early-onset epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, drug-resistant seizures and infantile spasms. This
disorder affects mostly females who are heterozygous for CDKL5 deficiency and mosaic for the
mutated allele because of the random X-chromosome inactivation. No cure exists for patients with
CDD and the development of rationally designed drug-based therapies is still extremely challenging
due to the limited knowledge of CDKL5 functions. Although the role of CDKL5 at excitatory synapses
is widely studied, a potential role of the protein in the specific regulation of the inhibitory
neurotransmission has been rather neglected up until now. Therefore, this Ph.D. thesis aims at
exploring a potential role of CDKL5 at the inhibitory synapse, focusing on the key component of this
compartment to elucidate possible alterations in the absence of CDKL5. Based on our findings, we
hypothesise that CDKL5 exerts a dual control on synaptic GABAAR expression: a direct regulation
through its interaction with the gephyrin-CB-NL2 complex and an indirect effect through its control
on MT dynamics. Future studies will aim at investigating the molecular composition of the inhibitory
synapse and the role of CDKL5 in regulating the conformational switch of CB. Moreover, in
agreement with the control of CDKL5 of MT dynamics, the pharmacological targeting of such
dynamics seems to stabilise the postsynaptic sites and potentiate GABAAR functioning, constituting
an important breakthrough in the CDD field
Relational Challenges for Social Workers with Unaccompanied Migrant Minors
No full textThe chapter addresses the issue of social work for UAMs as a specific area of social work that deals with providing support and protection to minors who are in a country other than their own, ensuring that they receive the support they need to overcome difficulties and reach their full potential, providing them with a safe and secure environment in which to grow and develop. The aim of the interventions is to provide UAMs with resources, support and access to the opportunities available in the host country so that they can become active and participating citizens. For truly inclusive reception pathways, it is fundamental—in addition to the availability of resources and interventions—also and above all the relational context in which the interventions are implemented; it is the relational quality of the help and support pathways that significantly contributes to the resilience of minors and young people
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