Practical Training - Supervision III main objective is to consolidate and expand the knowledge and skills acquired during Practical Laboratory Exercise ΙΙ, so that they can realize the professional role of the social worker without special guidance from the supervisor.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

• Consciously associate the theoretical approaches of Social Work with implementation, having the capacity of an integrated cross-method approach. If the intervention concerns the individual-family, they deepen on counseling issues aimed at restoring social functioning, empowering a person-family. If community involvement goes deeper into community development strategies aimed at improving living conditions.

• Have developed professional role awareness through responsibility, initiative development, development of interdisciplinary cooperation, respecting the principles and values of Social Work.

• Use the knowledge and skills acquired during the training as well as the opportunities offered by the Organization to help prevent and address modern social problems of individuals, families, groups and communities

• Understand the role of the social worker in investigating - identifying social needs designing and submitting proposals for implementing social programs at the local level.

• Use sources - programs (National, European Union programs) to meet social needs.

• Develop initiatives and promote innovation in the development and implementation of programs

• Promote dynamics of self-help and activation of the population to meet social needs.

• Contribute to the development of the interconnection of Social Services to better meet the needs of the community and the community

In relation to Supervision III, students are expected to:

• Have developed an integrated ability to record and present (written and spoken) their work

• Associate theoretical knowledge with the implementation of social work

• Promote teamwork in the context of educational supervision

• Present their work to the supervisory team in a clear and comprehensive way

• Effectively deal with their emotional involvement, attitudes and prejudices that affect their relationship with the Service's employees and staff

• They have developed a social worker identity

? General Capabilities

? Decision making

? Autonomous Work

? Teamwork

? Working in an interdisciplinary environment

? Design and Management of Projects, Interventions

? Respect for diversity and multiculturalism

? Exercise of criticism and self-criticism

? Promoting free, creative and inductive thinking

The laboratory lesson "Practical Laboratory Exercise-Supervision III consists of:

1. Practical Laboratory Exercise III conducted in selected Social Services / Practice Exercises Organizations selected by the Department. Practical Laboratory III aims to familiarize students with the implementation of social work in the framework of the operation of Social Organizations, to acquire a professional identity, to empower them so that they can function as social workers, achieving autonomy from the supervisor. Trainees make use of the knowledge and skills they have acquired during the training, as well as the opportunities offered by the Organization to help prevent and address modern social problems of individuals, families, groups and communities.

2. The 3-hour Group II Supervision which supports Practical Laboratory Exercise III and is performed on a weekly basis by members of the faculty, EDIP and scientific associates (PD 407) of the Social Worker's Specialty. 

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Relevant Academic Journals:

? Social work

? The Step of Social Sciences

? Social Research Survey

? Social Work

? European Social Work

? Community practice

? British Journal of Social Work

? Child & Family Social Work