Social Work: History and Foundations

6 ECTS / Semester / Portuguese
  • 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.

Faculty

Assistant Professor
He holds a PhD in Social Work from Carleton University, Canada. He currently works as an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Human Sciences of the Catholic…