Specialised Intervention Seminar: Social Support And Integration Of People In Vulnerable Situations

6 ECTS / Semestral / Portuguese
This course deepens practices of social support, case management, community integration and network-based work with people in vulnerable situations (poverty, homelessness, migration, disability, mental health). It develops ethical, analytical and intervention skills for integrated responses.
By the end of the course, students should be able to:
  1. Understand social support and case management models.
  2. Identify individual, family and structural vulnerabilities.
  3. Build social assessments and person-centred intervention plans.
  4. Apply empowerment, participation and strengths-based approaches.
  5.  Coordinate responses with health, housing, employment, education and community systems.
  6. Promote inclusion and community integration.
  7. Intervene ethically, grounded in human rights.
  8. Work collaboratively and coordinate multidisciplinary interventions.

Faculty

Assistant Professor
PhD in Social Work by Universidade Católica Portuguesa, she is coordinator of the Degree in Social Work.  A researcher at the Catholic Research Centre…

Funding bodies