XP204V  VICTIMS AND SURVIVORS. TOWARDS UNDERSTANDING, JUSTICE AND HEALING (A.A. 2024/2025)

• Unità Accademica

  Istituto di Antropologia

• Corso

  Diploma in Safeguarding

Objectives: The course will introduce the students to the consequences of abuse for victims, to the concept of secondary victims, and pastoral and personal accompaniment of victims of abuse. The course will also bring students to deepen their reflection on the systemic issues of abuses in various settings, in particular to abuse of children/adults with disabilities and human trafficking. There will be intercultural reflection throughout the course. The students will also be introduced to the concepts like the ability to control their emotions, compassion fatigue, self-care, and vulnerability.

Learning Outcomes: At the end of the course, the students will become aware of how the reality of abuse affects victims, secondary victims, safeguarding personnel, the church, and society. They will be able to properly relate to victim-survivors, assessing their feelings and attitudes. They will be able to create specific ways to (pastorally) care for victims and secondary victims. They will be able to reflect on and become aware of the specific vulnerability for (sexual) abuse created by disability, migration, displacement, etc.

Content: Meetings with victims; comparison between the reality of (clerical) abuse; importance of self-care with regard to emotion regulation and compassion fatigue; students’ attitudes, fears, resistances, etc.; risk and protective factors in different cultures; forms of assistance and therapy for victims; (pastoral) accompaniment of victims and secondary victims, way to reduce conditions of vulnerability.

Methodology: The course will combine lectures, readings, and seminar discussion and will focus on a range of selected texts.

Means of evaluation: Evaluation will be based on class participation and written papers.

• Informazioni
• Docenti
• Orario lezioni/Aula
• Bibliografia

Informazioni

• Semestre: 1° Semestre
• ECTS: 6

Docenti

Makamatine LEMBO

Romuald UZABUMWANA

Orario lezioni/Aula

Orario delle lezioni non disponibile

Bibliografia

• It will be indicated at the beginning of the course.