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Starting from the research “Religions in Hospitals: Integrating Spirituality and Medicine in Care Practices” (RESPIRO) (2019-2022) this article discusses applications and limitations of spiritual care in Italy. We aim to illustrate the results of an analysis that was developed at different levels and, specifically, regarding: patients’ demand for spirituality and the provision of spiritual care introduced in some hospitals...

The paper explores the connection between Medical Humanities (MHs) and the One Health approach. The goal is to propose innovative programs for training health professionals that emphasise the interaction between MHs and One Health. This crossing can be created with relations between the two disciplines, supporting the holistic health dimension, focusing on the person rather than exclusively on the disease...

The article addresses the current transformations of the Civil Service for young people promoted by the Italian state. It seeks to understand whether and how the digitalisation processes are changing the forms of civic engagement. The analysis highlights two contrasting trends. At the level of governance of the system, the digital platforms activated have centralized and made procedures more efficient without creating new opportunities for relations and sharing informations between actors...

The article explores the issue of precarity in the field of social work, proposing the concept of super-precariousness to represent the condition that specifically concerns social workers who, as a consequence of an unstable employment status, also find themselves suffering a precariousness of professional identity...

Focusing the reflection on the Italian experience, the present article discusses two distinct but closely related theses. The first one is that bibliometrics can be used in the evaluation of scientific production even in the field of Sociology, at least in perspective. The second one affirms that bibliometric indicators can be a useful tool to support the evaluation but cannot replace the evaluation itself. Valutare la produzione scientifica. Alcune riflessioni nel campo della sociologia by Marco Caselli is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Families’ participation in child protection is a challenge both in its theoretical interpretation and practice implementation. When social workers have to protect children from their own family, they must reflect on how to guarantee the exercise of parents and children’s rights and duties. After a brief outline of research on parents and children’s participation in Child Protection, this paper presents results from quantitative research. Social workers are asked to define the concept of participation...