Summer Institute Rome: International Approaches to Social Issues
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| Rok publikování | 2024 |
| Druh | Uspořádání konference |
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| Popis | Human suffering is, unfortunately, a universal experience that transcends race, gender, class, age, and many other identities, including one’s culture and country of origin. Yet, how different countries define and respond to social issues that contribute to such suffering varies dramatically depending on how various disciplines and countries conceptualize the issues and develop prevention and intervention strategies and resources to address such issues across various levels of society. Social workers, psychologists, nurses, and other helping disciplines are particularly well-equipped to address social issues across society due to their education and training aimed at understanding and intervening with regard to issues that impact individuals, groups, and communities. This course will introduce students to how various helping professionals from different countries and disciplines address social issues and will be taught by an international team of professionals from different disciplines to explore and understand social issues that directly and indirectly impact human suffering across the globe. The course will be taught in partnership between the National Catholic School of Social Service at Catholic University in Washington, DC, in the United States, Masaryk University in Brno in the Czech Republic, the Psychology Program at University of Piura in Perú, Department of Social Welfare, College of Social Sciences Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Department of Sociology and “Relational Social Work” Research Center of Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan (Italy) and the Department of Social Work in Rome, Italy. The course will be a hybrid summer course, with one portion completed asynchronously aimed at introducing the students to international attempts to understand and intervene around social issues. Following this asynchronous section, students will attend the Catholic University’s Rome Center (TRC) for a ten-day in-person learning experience. They will work with students and faculty from other universities to explore and develop a project to address a social issue in their communities and the world. The topics will include an overview of how the various participating countries define and operationalize particular social issues, including family well-being (including child and adolescent welfare and family and aging services) and substance use disorders. This international and multi-generational approach will allow students to learn from other students and faculty about how to resolve global social issues within their communities and across the globe. |
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