PROFESSIONAL TRAINEESHIP 2
- Overview
- Assessment methods
- Learning objectives
- Contents
- Full programme
- Delivery method
- Teaching methods
- Contacts/Info
Students must have passed the previous year's internship examinations, so it is necessary to:
- have experienced systematic observation activities in the first year
- Have experienced teamwork in the first year
- have experienced the educational relationship with users in the first year
- Have experienced what information is needed to understand the organization of a facility
The evaluation of the internship is expressed by a single grade, at the end of the year, expressed in thirtieths. The final grade is the weighted average of the following intermediate evaluative actions:
Evaluation of the situational activity
Conducted at the end of the field experience at the end of each internship:
- Evaluation of the internship structure (2 annual grades): expressed in thirtieths by the internship assistant, according to the evaluation form in the booklet, the grade is worth 20%. Non-sufficiency of this evaluation implies the need to repeat the course.
Tutor evaluation: the student is evaluated through an interview on the learning related to his/her role in the internship context and on the main contents of the professional identity impacted during the experience, the grade is expressed in thirtieths according to a prepared evaluation form.
The student is also evaluated on the ability to rework the experience through a written paper, according to an outline defined in the internship booklet. The grade is expressed in thirtieths.
The average of the two tutor's grades constitutes the internship exam grade and weighs 30%
Evaluation of service learning activities
The supervisor evaluates, in thirtieths and according to a prepared evaluation form, the design process, regardless of the outcome of the implementation. The grade is unique for all members of the service learning group. The grade weighs in at 20 percent
Final evaluation of the year
At the end of the year there is a concluding written examination, whose grade expressed in thirtieths weighs 20%, on the skills acquired during the year. The remaining 10% comes from the laboratory assessments.
Topics already covered during the first year are taken up and deepened in the area of psychiatry and disability:
- psychiatric diagnostic and treatment services, their organization and treatment modalities
- educational/rehabilitation services for the disabled, their organization and taking charge of the person
- the main characteristics of the most frequent mental illnesses being treated in diagnostic and treatment services and their in-depth study
- the activities of systematic observation in treatment settings
- the tool related to "Active Listening"
- initiating, maintaining and ending an educational relationship with an adult
- individual and group treatment activities
- learn about models and practices of cooperative work with reference to the group and the team
Particularly in the second year, the internship is geared toward expanding and consolidating the theoretical-practical acquisition of content attributable to four macro-categories:
- Tools of educational work
- Educational planning
- The World of Services
- Area-specific topics
Tools must carry out a total of 500 hours of internship divided into:
100 hours Service Learning
200 hours first internship
200 hours second internship
The two internships will take place in the two areas of Psychiatry and Disability.
Upon completion of the internship, the student will be able to:
- Know how to explain the stages of a patient intake pathway
- Know diagnostic and treatment services, their organization and treatment modalities
- Know how to recognize the behavioral characteristics of the most frequent mental illnesses being treated in diagnostic and treatment services
- Know how to apply systematic observation
- Know how to apply the tool of active listening
The psychiatric area proposes training experiences with respect to the impact of the diagnosis on the individual person; the treatment options in the different services; experiences of specific activities with the user, group and individual, such as interviews, basic skills and resocialization activities, activities at home and in the user's area of residence, the procedures for a job placement and/or active job search.
- The disability area proposes training experiences with respect to the approach to the subject of disability, models, definitions and classification; the taking charge of the user in the referral services; diagnostic framing and the different forms of disability: relational, sensory, physical and intellectual; neurodevelopmental disorders; sexuality and disability; the educational relationship in its aspects of intentionality and empathy, what risks in the helping relationship; the family in disability.
The student delves into the themes of autonomy, taking care of users, intentionality of educational action, the educational relationship, the right distance, tools for working within services (the project, educational folders, evaluation and observation scales).
Internship is a complex device composed of multiple activities geared toward the progressive acquisition of professional identity in a circular process of learning experience. The activities of which it is composed consist of:
- Situational activities: 100% compulsory attendance in a contracted service , with the support of an internship assistant employed by the host organization;
- Tutoring activities: small-group reflective practice workshops, attendance of which is compulsory, with the conduction of the university tutor aimed at reworking on practice and analysis of the work done in the in-situ activity;
- Miniseminars: activities in the presence of area projects related to the areas of internship, attendance is mandatory;
- Monitoring of the progress of the in-situ activity: contacts between tutor and assistant in order to better and better decline the individual student's path;
- Webinars;
- Individual interviews: each student has a mandatory individual interview with the tutor of the relevant Internship Area (two per year) aimed at getting to know and defining the individual training project. Next to the first mandatory interview, there are interviews as needed requested either by the student or the tutor.
Appointments or inquiries can be made by contacting the coordinator via e-mail at: grazia.marchini@uninsubria.it