Graduates of the Graduate Degree Programme in Educational Counseling for Disabled and Marginal People will be able to intervene directly in educational and social contexts where their pedagogical competence will direct and coordinate the training and rehabilitation process of people who live in very difficult personal and socio-affective situations.
They will be able to exercise their action in educational agencies, in public and private structures that take care of people with deep specific needs from childhood to adulthood. In particular, he/she will be able to take on highly qualified roles in the field of consultancy, supervision, training, coordination, design in the following areas:
- social and health area: hospitals and rehabilitation centres, paediatric wards, child neuropsychiatry services, health education projects where envisaged;
- socio-educational and social-welfare area: socio-educational centres, day employment centres, reception centres, nurseries, worker cooperatives dedicated to the reception of people with disabilities, oratories, playrooms, youth aggregation centres, counselling centres, family support services, family mediation services, residential communities for people with disabilities, residential communities for minors, services for foreign minors, services of street operators, socio-cultural services, youth information, socio-educational services of local authorities, services for the protection of children's rights, voluntary services and social cooperatives; rehabilitation centers for drug addicts; educational services in prisons; services for targeted job placement for people with disabilities or problems;
- school area: municipal and provincial pedagogical consultancy services, special pedagogical coordination in kindergartens, special intervention projects for people with disabilities, projects for the prevention of hardship, early school leaving, bullying, guidance services, after-school services and extracurricular educational activities, vocational training centers;
- legal area: foster care, adoption, situations of abuse and maltreatment of minors, juvenile crime, new addictions.