SOCIAL MEDICINE
cod. 00704

Academic year 2008/09
3° year of course - First semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Medicina legale (MED/43)
Field
Ambito aggregato per crediti di sede
Type of training activity
Hub-specific activity
30 hours
of face-to-face activities
5 credits
hub: PARMA
course unit
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Learning objectives

The student is expected to acquire information useful for evaluating his/her professional activity from a normative-juridical standpoint.

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

<br />- CHILD ABUSE AND MISTREATMENT <br />
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Definition of abuse: from a Clinical, Social and Judicial standpoint <br />
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Analysis of the spread of this phenomenon, Italian context. Consequences of abuse. <br />
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Clinical assessment. Indicators and signs: physical and psychological. Accounts of the adult and minor. <br />
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Critical analysis of forensic traumatology and compatibility of the event and lesion. Role of the social worker: coordinator of the interdisciplinary network. Judicial route. <br />
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- SOCIAL-SANITARY PROBLEMS OF THE ELDERLY. <br />
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Non-sufficient chronically-ill elderly: Medical-assistance problems.. Integrated social-assistance projects. <br />
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Protecting the elderly in a network context Non-sufficient elderly: ethical solutions and integrated assistance for families.</P> <br />
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- FOREIGNER IMMIGRANT? FROM OUTSIDE THE EEC > A NEW REALITY. <br />
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L. 40/96 and subsequent modifications. Poverty, hardship, isolation—immigration-related problems. <br />
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Treatment and assistance in a multi-problem context: role of the social worker

Full programme

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Bibliography

M. Malacrea, S. Lorenzini, Ba4 mbini abusati: linee guida nel dibattito internazionale, Raffaello Cortina Editore, 2002 <br />
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F. Montecchi (a cura di), I maltrattamenti e gli abusi sui bambini. Prevenzione e individuazione precoce, F. Angeli Editore, 2002 <br />
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Teaching methods

Classroom lectures <br />
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Oral examination.

Assessment methods and criteria

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Other information

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