Professional Education Methodologies 3

TECNICHE E STRUMENTI DEL LAVORO EDUCATIVO: SVILUPPO DI ABILITA' SOCIALI: LA CONDUZIONE DEL GRUPPO E IL LAVORO DI EQUIPE - MED/48
Group definition
Relational and communicative processes in the group
Group and work group
Decision making processes and dynamics management for a collaborative activity
for group management techniques and instruments
TECNICHE E STRUMENTI DEL LAVORO EDUCATIVO: PREPARAZIONE ALLA PROVA PRATICA - MED/48
Exercises on complex cases and cases with multiple-problems, related to different social-medical and rehabilitative services, will be proposed during the lessons. These cases are also related to territorial educational contexts, linked to apprenticeship and working experience.
After a careful analysis of the demand and / or need, the student is required to highlight possible alternatives to manage these specific needs, creating multi-professional teams and enhancing the resources of formal and informal networks.
TECNICHE E STRUMENTI DEL LAVORO EDUCATIVO: LA SCRITTURA NEL LAVORO EDUCATIVO - MED/48
Methods for bibliographic research
1. Focus on ideas, thems etc.
2. University of Milan: Catalogue (OPAC)
3. Google e Google Scholar
4. Explora: the Digital Library's search engine (a single interface for searching a heterogeneous collection of resources)
The Digital Library enables all University of Milan (UniMi) students to access a vast scholarly collection of electronic resources.
5. Digital Library: access to the full-text version of a journal article from its bibliographic record in a database and off-campus access to resources after logging-in using the University e-mail credentials
6. Digital Library/ databases: PubMed and PsycInfo
7. Digital Library: ejournals, ebooks and search for an article

Thesis:
Review or Scientific thesis: features
IMRaD (Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion)
Cite as you write: generate citations and bibliographies in Harvard Style (Microsoft Word)
Summary (Microsoft Word)

AREE DI INTERVENTO: IL LAVORO EDUCATIVO CON LE DIPENDENZE - ALTRE ATTIVITA'
A general look on drugs addiction
Drugs addiction in Italian history. Law e
Drugs addiction and mental disease. Are they similar?
What is below this addiction who is the drugs addicted?
The educational work on the addiction.
Prevent the disease of father's evaporation's age.
Gambling in Italy. Montains of money.
AREE DI INTERVENTO: LA RIABILITAZIONE PSICHIATRICA - ALTRE ATTIVITA'
A common language in mental health
Psychiatric rehabilitation, brief history, definition, theoretical aspects
Mental health policies and services in the Lombardy Region
Design educational and rehabilitative pathways in residential and semi-residential services
Designing paths of social inclusion, work and housing
New needs and new educational questions in Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry
Direct testimonials from users of Mental Health services.
TECNICHE E STRUMENTI DEL LAVORO EDUCATIVO: STRUMENTI DELLA RICERCA QUALITATIVA E RICERCA DI INTERVENTO - ALTRE ATTIVITA'
Social field research: methodological principles
Qualitative research tools and action research: meaning and link with educational work
Action research and social observation
Storytelling in social research
Qualitative research tools: images application
Qualitative research tools: interview
Qualitative research tools: focus group
Analisys path
Evaluation of thesis instruments

1st part of the course (15 hours) Document the educational experience:
· Practices (reasons, potentialities and limits of education writing);
· The pedagogical positioning of educational writing;
· The texts of the educational documentation (purpose, form and specific contents);
· Need, style and responsibility at stake in the educational documentation.
2nd part of the course (30 hours) Preparation for the practical test:
· Presentation of the objectives of the practical test and of the evaluation criteria;
· Analysis of the structure of the practical test;
· Individual and small group exercises aimed at the preparation of practical tests, and subsequent analysis and evaluation.



- Main responsibilities towards the team in the exercise of the educational profession
- Teamwork methodology: collaborative practice and inter-professional approach
- Educational work, welfare work, health work: which integration?
- Team building and its components
- Effective communication in the work group: areas of competence
- Tools of the working group: the team meeting
- The group process in social work: the group as a resource
- Group work in action: operational model for the planning and management of user groups
- Expert testimony on the topics covered

· Ontology and Epistemology of the qualitative research.
· Technique of qualitative research: shadowing, naturalistic and participant observation, interview, documents, focus group
· Creation of a qualitative tool
· Systematic review of literature
· Analysis of qualitative data
· Qualitative research practice
· The application of the design and techniques of the qualitative research for the thesis

· The professional educator in psychiatry: between custody and care. Discussion on the evolution of treatments.
· Networking, empowerment, the Psychiatry Department,
· The educational alliance, the caring community, human rights,
· The concept of time in psychiatry: free, daily, working.
· Communication and visibility of educational and rehabilitative work.

Particular attention will be paid to the definition of the "problem" of addiction in educational perspective, to the knowledge of the status and evolution of the system of preventive intervention and of taking charge of individuals and the community, of the problematization of stereotypes and prejudices that characterize the people involved in this specific area of intervention.
Topics that will be treated specifically:
· the setting and organizational context in which the educational work is placed in the addiction area;
· technical methodological elements that guide professional practice in this specific field;
· transversality elements of the professional educational approach
Also starting from the presentation of cases in the classroom resulting from the students' internship experience, they will also be studied in depth:
· methods, techniques and typical moments of the intervention of the professional educator in the relationship with subjects with specific needs;
· main characteristics of the setting and the typical sets of educational work in the addiction area, with particular reference to the preventive, care and social reintegration area
There are also targeted outings to educational services active in the addiction area.