O trabalho de assistentes sociais com famílias no Seridó Potiguar

Abstract

The present work has as its general objective to analyze the political and social direction of the work of social workers inserted in the CRAS of Caicó and Bodó/RN, focusing on the development of social work with families. It is presented as a bibliographic, documentary, and field research, guided by the method of historical materialism, based on the analysis of the following categories: conservatism, families, and Social Work. The field research was developed through semi-structured interviews with 05 (five) social workers, regarding the development of social work with families, especially the strategies used by professionals for the development of this work and how they activate the instrumentality of Social Work. It presupposes that due to an unfavorable political context, historically conservative, there is a tendency for social work with families, developed by social workers in the target services of the research, not to align with the ethical-political project of Social Work and not to advance beyond the determinations of the technical manuals of Social Assistance Policy, which contributes to the reinforcement of professional conservatism. The analysis of the collected data allowed identifying that the professionals participating in the research have knowledge of what social work with families is, as well as what is established in the norms, manuals, and guidelines of PAIF. However, the objective reality of work precarization and policy weakening hinders the development of social work with families, as established in the documents of Social Assistance, as well as creates barriers to the materialization of the ethical-political project of Social Work. In this perspective, the present work aims to contribute to the expansion of the debate, in a critical perspective, on social work with families, in order to favor the permanent construction and defense of the ethical-political project of Social Work.