Professional Education (Qualifying for the Health Profession of Professional Educator)
What is the objective of the course? What is it?
What does it train you for?
What does it train you for?
The mission of the Bachelor's Degree in “Professional Education habilitating to the Health Profession of Professional Educator” is to train highly qualified personnel with specialized biomedical and psychosocial knowledge capable of working in prevention, care and habilitation/rehabilitation.
Different teachings will be delivered during the course, of which a good part will be divided into modules.
These, thanks to the complementarity and/or affinity of the topics covered, will make it possible to address and provide all the knowledge about key topics of the training pathway of the Health Professional Educator, which will be divided into the following disciplinary areas: biomedical and health area; psychological and sociological area; area of social health professional education; interdisciplinary linguistic and computer area.
The CdS will prepare students to become Professional Educators, i.e., social/health workers capable of implementing specific care and rehabilitation projects aimed at balanced personality development in a context of participation and recovery in daily life and the positive psychosocial integration or reintegration of complex individuals.
What do you learn?
The Bachelor's Degree will provide, to learners, the valuable tools to develop different skills including: designing, managing and evaluating rehabilitative interventions; identifying interventions aimed at wellness helpful in preventing the onset of possible diseases; planning and managing the rehabilitation processes underlying the recovery of patients with addiction problems and suffering from disabling neurological pathologies; acquiring the skills helpful in coping with the needs of users with chronic pathologies; know how to evaluate the effectiveness of therapeutic strategies aimed at the treatment of diseases of the geriatric and pediatric age; work in the social and family contexts of patients with the disease, in order to facilitate their reintegration into their community; acquire the skills necessary to implement secondary and tertiary prevention interventions; contribute to the training of students and the training of support staff and contribute directly to the updating related to their professional profile.
The maturation of these student skills will be achieved by taking care of, through face-to-face teaching, transmitting a wealth of theoretical knowledge and emphasizing design aspects and operational issues in exercises and project writing during internships.
What can you do with it?
The Professional Educator carries out his or her activities in a dependent or freelance capacity in the public and/or private social sector.
Specifically, he or she works at the Provincial Health Authorities in services that offer health care of an outpatient nature (services for pathological addictions to and without substances, mental health centers, first reception centers, etc.); daytime (socio-educational centers, rehabilitative day hospitals, psychiatric day centers, integrated day centers, youth aggregation centers); residential (socio-rehabilitative therapeutic communities, assisted health residences, psychiatric communities, communities for people with disabilities).
Moreover, obtaining the degree would allow for further education by enrolling in Master's Degree Programs (CdLM), such as the one in Rehabilitation Sciences of Health Professions, rather than participating in different Master's degrees (Methods and Techniques of Cognitive and Behavioral Rehabilitation, Health Management, Clinical Applications in Pediatric Psychology, etc.) and PhDs (Health Sciences and Technologies, Social Sciences, etc.) in the field of professional care and rehabilitation.