- To provide information and interpretative keys for a historical and conceptual informed positioning about Social Work, on the picture of present social professions;
- To present a basic picture of reference to the understanding of Social Work history as a social profession;
- To describe and analyse Social Work emergency and institutionalisation in the “Social Question” context, identifying the main historical problematic and historical variables in this process;
- To point out and analyse Portuguese Social Work emergency and institutionalisation, from a comparative perspective;
- To identify and analyse the development of Social Work conceptual basis and intervention models, through a general overview of the classic methods;
- To point out and analyse, from a introductory way, the critical movements and the reconceptualisation of Social Work classical paradigm, on the 60-70 years of the 20th century.
Social Work: History and Foundations
6 ECTS / Semester / Portuguese
