Perspectives on social Welfare: The Italian case
Carmela Davì, Messina (Italy)
The call to the social professionals today changes on the basis of the incredible transformations of national welfare systems that kept communities in all ages. (more…)
Poverty, social exclusion and delinquency: Criminological reflections on the Italian context
Luigi Leone, Messina (Italy)
This article examines how poverty and social exclusion can be related to delinquency. (more…)
Youth in Italy
Walter Lorenz, Bolzano (Italy)
Children and young people continue to rank highly in Italian society, at least as far as their cultural and symbolic value is concerned. (more…)
Congress Report: Social Work in Restructured European Welfare Systems
Annamaria Campanini, EASSW, Calabria/Parma (Italy)
Social Work in Restructured European Welfare Systems - The role of the field placement, is the title of the congress organized by the University of Calabria the 5th and 6th February in Arcavacata di Rende (Cosenza). (more…)
Professionalization and Higher Education in Social Work in Italy
Annamaria Campanini, EASSW
Social work education is in a very challenging and sometimes also difficult situation in Italy. (more…)
Research on the current state of the social work profession in Italy
Carla Facchini, Milano, Annamaria Campanini, Calabria and Walter Lorenz, Bolzano (Italy)
Social work training in Italy, at the instigation of the Italian professional Association of Social Workers, was delegated entirely to the universities in 1990. This has given the profession an enormous boost in terms of its public status, and at the same time an enormous task to find ways of utilizing the new opportunities. While the incorporation into the university sector underlined the scientific standing of the profession, its development is overshadowed by the absence of a specific disciplinary category that would give social work an independent base in the Italian academic system. (more…)
