This module will give a presentation of core concepts used in the topics that the MAJMIN project deals with and which relate to the other modules as well. It also includes a list of good practices when dealing with minor offenders.
This MAJMIN training course aims to respond to the current situation in which societies are challenged by the misdeeds of the minor law breakers and they are seeking for solutions and in which representative segments of professionals interacting with juvenile offenders (juridical, penalty, social, pedagogical and psychological assistance, medical care staffs, educational and training staffs), have few or no special training in the field of dealing with minor offenders.
Available courses
In this thematic area, the MAJMIN EQF Curriculum aims to get your message across to others clearly and unambiguously. Communication skills are soft skills that is acquired and developed in individual human development. Communication skills are one of the key competencies of qualified worker, professional. It is supposed the professional with level 7 of qualification degree to be able to demonstrate adequate soft skills. In order to upgrade their level of competencies some specific training issue must be addressed to demonstration of good communication skills – such as communication specifics in order to interpersonal communication and conflict resolution.
By increasing the repertoire of interpersonal communication skills, people can increase their overall effectiveness. This module pretends to work some aspects considered vital to a better interaction with the others.
This module will aimed to provide awareness and competencies to the professional working with juvenile prisoners, increasing sensibility for the interpersonal communication and conflict resolution caused misunderstanding and problems in the reintegration issues, provide the participants with better understanding of the roles of communication within interpersonal matters, equip the professionals with the necessary communication sensibility and understanding of different cultural aspects.
In this thematic area, the MAJMIN EQF Curriculum aims to give the participants’ knowledge, skills and competencies regarding ethics associated with dealing with minor offenders, in a variety of contexts and with the use of a variety of techniques and tools.
Ethics has been shown to be a central component in decisions involving ethical dilemmas, and the process of analysing an ethical dilemma has been illustrated. Ethics is concerned with standards of conduct and with “ how I ought to act” and standards of conduct relativism to moral absolutism; a perspective that emphasizes moral pluralism seems to offer the best hope for resolving problems of relativities.
Ethics, also known as moral philosophy, is a branch of philosophy concerned with the study of questions of right and wrong and how we ought to live. Ethics involves making moral judgments about what is right or wrong, good or bad. Right and wrong are qualities or moral judgments we assign to actions and conduct. Within the study of ethics, there are three branches: meta-ethics, concerned with methods, language, logical structure, and the reasoning used in the interpretation of ethical terms, for example, what exactly the term “good” means; normative ethics, concerned with ways of behaving and standards of conduct; and applied ethics, concerned with solving practical moral problems as they arise, particularly in the professions, such as medicine and law.
Ethics provides us with a way to make moral choices when we are uncertain about what to do in a situation involving moral issues. In the process of everyday life, moral rules are desirable, not because they express absolute truth but because they are generally reliable guides for normal circumstances.
In this thematic area, the MAJMIN EQF Curriculum aims to endow the professionals with the methodology of networking meeting the needs posed by people in the society where they live, in order to develop their ability to recognize problems and take charge, increasing the autonomy to the institutions and helping them to gain access to solutions of a community. The professionals, interconnected in networks, enhance the dynamism of relations in society in order to contribute to the solution of individual and collective problems. This module aims to analyse the fundamentals of the theory of social networks and a methodological intervention network in social work.
The specific objectives to be achieved are:
- the achievement of knowledge about the basic concepts on social networks;
- ability to identify spaces and the dynamics of the network;
- introduction to the intervention of the network;
- the basic tools of the intervention.
The final part of the module also provides the analysis of practical cases in relation to juvenile delinquency, to the role of social services involved.
In this thematic area, the MAJMIN EQF Curriculum aims to deepen the theoretical and methodological tools necessary to understand complex situations dealt with by the professional social service. The goal is to provide to all professionals the relevant information, theoretical and practical, useful not only for the ones that are already active in the field (such as social workers), but for all others involved in the process of aid.
Will be exposed the concept of "custom design", with emphasis on:
- To build the relationship of trust;
- In the assessment as a process of initial evaluation;
- The centrality of the ability of the user;
- Empowerment;
- The formulation of the plan of action and its implementation;
- The stages of completion and verification of the intervention.
The tools such as the interview, a home visit, the team work should be discussed in relation to complex operations with a consumer specific, in our case children and deviance.
In this thematic area, the MAJMIN EQF Curriculum aims to offer a basic and, at the same time, articulate range of what is medical, psychological, educative and legislative training in the sphere of sanitary work in the field of juvenile delinquency.
This module wants to give basic knowledge and skills to understand role and function of professionals who serve in the sanitary area context, in particular concerning to the figure of professional educator who works in contact with delinquency and juvenile deviance world.
At the end of the module each professional will be able to better and more carefully interact with other professionals who work in the sanitary area; will be clear enough for them what is requested as professionals in relations with the specific needs of minor offender.
In this thematic area, the MAJMIN EQF Curriculum aims to promote development of psychological skills and competences for each social operator who works with minor offenders in all the situations implied by this kind of context.
First of all, it offers psychological cognitive and pragmatic elements – not only in terms of practices but, above all, in terms of attitudes and of “way of being and presenting themselves”. The aim is increasing knowledge and relational expertise of each operator in order to develop a complete and articulate – and not sector-based - vocational training.
Secondly, even if a lot of elements between those considered by this module won’t be competences needed by professionals addressed by the course (apart psychologists), the module perspective is the promotion of networking. This means that knowledge of roles and psychological functions will make each operator more competent in connection with the fulfilment of consultations, meetings, dispatch. In general, each professional implied in the processes activated by deviance and juvenile delinquency will be more aware about psychologist’s role and more able to create collaboration work relationship and teamwork.
In this thematic area, the MAJMIN EQF Curriculum aims to encourage the development of educational-pedagogical skills and competencies and is intended for professionals (educators, administrators, community, teachers, etc.) who are confronted with the less deviant in school, family and social or in communal situations.
The objectives of this area are given the multiple contexts of multiple operators' work in this area, but we want to offer to the professionals additional relevant information with respect to their basic and further practical work, especially for reflection on what behaviours and attitudes more functional to establish a good relationship with the child, the context in which they live and the significant adults who are part of. Another major goal of the area is to facilitate communication between the different professionals involved in the project in order to be able to restore and support the child.
The aim is, in fact, to expand the knowledge and relationship of each operator in the direction of professional training, more complete and cross-sectorial, which allows him to see his work as part of a set, ready to promote the networking. A set of exercises, group work and experiential lessons designed to give a cross-sectorial, professional dimension to all involved in the processes activated by the deviance / delinquency, will make them more aware of their role but also more capable of creating relationships and teamwork.
In society every time the lawyer's role has been and is a "key link" in the chain of social ranks as an interpreter of other people will, as a defender against injustice, as a mediator in order to balance the torments of eternal and ever-changing society. However, in areas where stir feelings and emotions, such as juvenile law and the family, the burden of responsibility becomes more burdensome, as it is complex and difficult to manage fears, hardships many hidden or concealed by the represented and the facts and circumstances sometimes leave bewildered and dismayed.
In the matter under consideration lawyers experts in the field must have specific requirements and skills, professional knowledge have multiple and / or use of professional support. This module aims to reflect, identify and facilitate the expression of these essential skills but often overlooked in the basic training of lawyers, who often approaching the defence of the child by the same means used for an adult, without developing the sensitivity and attention needed in relationship to the child and his family.
Another objective of the course is to facilitate communication between the various caregivers (professional and non), surrounded the child, to make it more fluent and real cooperation between them to support a practical and effective NETWORKING.