Selection Procedure

1. An informative session for students is held at the end of September, approximately two months before the practice centre selection process, in which UVprácticas and the Master's practice coordinators participate. Among other things, the placement assignment procedure is explained. The presentation files, including the document "Assignment of External Internship Placements," are deposited in the Virtual Classroom. In this session, an activity is also carried out where students indicate their preferences regarding the areas in which they would like to undertake their internships, the type of resource, the period, the schedule, and limitations related to location and/or travel.

2. Students choose their placement - around mid-November - according to the established order based on the scores obtained in the scoring phases of the first and second admission stages (a list is prepared on this basis and made public two months before the actual selection).

3. During the two months following the informative session, the Master's practice coordinators, in collaboration with UVprácticas, prepare the offer considering the preferences for dependency-related areas shown by the students in the informative session. This offer is reported to and submitted for approval by the Master's Academic Coordination Committee before being forwarded to the centre's Internship Committee.

4. With a minimum of one week's notice before the selection process, the offer is made available to students in the Virtual Classroom.

5. The selection process is carried out via e-mail. The practice coordinators write to each student sequentially following the selection order to request a placement. Once each placement has been assigned, the list is updated, indicating assigned and available placements for the information of the next student required to make a selection.

Internship Center Offer

The Internships are developed in four areas, which include:

• Disability and Promotion of Personal Autonomy. Some of the tasks that students will have to carry out in this area are the preparation of documents related to personal, professional, and career guidance and personal and professional competencies; the development of interventions for center users; support for the user or family in carrying out different administrative procedures: registration, change of doctor, pensions; monitoring of users; development of individualized interventions.

• Chronic or Mental Illness. Approach and reality of the collective of people with mental health problems, design of activities and workshops in the community environment with users; the development of interventions for center users; supervision of correct completion and support in the monitoring and training of teams; development of measures for the prevention of psychological alterations and socialization problems, through both individual and group interventions.

• Elderly People and Social Action. This area includes tasks such as designing and developing specific and innovative intervention programs based on the person-centered care (PCC) model; understanding the reality of dementias; collaborating in cognitive, social, and emotional stimulation activities; design and implementation of individual and group cognitive activities; support and advice for family members/caregivers.

• Dependence Care. Tasks will be carried out such as managing, directing, and motivating the center's work teams; support in personnel management, rosters, selection, professional profiles; assessment of the needs of dependent people; volunteer training; home visits; case monitoring; knowledge of diagnostic tests, evaluation techniques, and intervention strategies.

The offer of internship centers is highly varied and covers the following professional specialization areas:

• Residential Centers for the Elderly.

• Mental Health Centers.

• Occupational Centers.

• Sheltered Housing.

• Geriatric Institutes.

• Foundations.

• Associations of family members of people in a situation of dependence (cognitive deterioration, acquired brain injury, etc.)

• Early Intervention.

• Social Services.

• Home Care Companies.