IL LAVORO DI COMUNITÀ NELL’ESPERIENZA DI CARITAS. SPERIMENTAZIONE DEL METODO «RELATIONAL SOCIAL WORK» IN ALCUNE DIOCESI DELL’EMILIA-ROMAGNA

[Autom. eng. transl.] The book presents an action-research project carried out in the territory of some Dioceses of Emilia-Romagna which is part of the Practice Research approach, a line of Social work research defined for the first time in 2007. of an approach to research intrinsically connected to operational practice, based on a constant exchange and dialogue between researchers, professionals, but also recipients of services and services, volunteers and citizens. The action research project was developed according to a model that provides for a high degree of participation and saw the operators of Caritas Emilia-Romagna alongside the researchers of the RSW Center throughout the process, from the definition of the research questions to the choice and construction of the tools to be used for data collection, up to the analysis, interpretation and dissemination of what has been collected. The interventions carried out had the aim of experimenting with the Relational social work method in the function of community animation, typical of Caritas, introducing a participatory approach capable of combining the Church's own gaze with the more scientific one of Social work.