Santos, Silvana Mara de Morais dosRibeiro, Jéssyka Kaline Augusto2016-02-012016-02-012014-12-16RIBEIRO, Jéssyka Kaline Augusto. Assistente social, para quê e para quem? Uma análise acerca do atendimento as populações LGBT no âmbito dos CREAS, do município de João Pessoa-PB. 2014. 190f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Serviço Social) - Centro de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2014.https://repositorio.ufrn.br/jspui/handle/123456789/19714This dissertation aims to analyze the social direction on the attendance of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Transsexuals (LGBT) populations in the Reference Center for Specialized Social Assistance (CREAS) in the city of João Pessoa – PB, mainly because of Social Work answers to existing demands in the sexual diversity field. On the assumption of recognition of the social relevance configuration of the National Policy on Social Assistance (PNAS) and on its effectiveness, CREAS performs the task of realizing referrals that are necessary to redress Rights violations. From a theorical methodological point of view, we have apprehended the object in its historicity and multiple determinations. The results of this research enable the identification of the main difficulties and challenges to Social Work in attending LGBT population demands and also how the sexual diversity agenda presents itself in the perspective of the Ethical Political Project of the profession. Despite of the PNAS constitutes itself as one of the highest advance in Social Assistance configuration as a public policy, inside its conception about the characterization of vulnerability of PNAS users, prevails the understanding that issues related to human diversity are restrained to notions of stigmatized identities in ethnical, cultural and sexual terms. With regard to concept of family, stands out transformations on its social political recognition, but when PNAS refers only to women leading family nucleus, leaves out family configurations formed by same-sex couples. It was possible to apprehend on PNAS materialization large gaps concerning about insufficiency of the State on investments on training in sexual diversity area to confront sexual orientation prejudice and discrimination that stay, in large measures, invisible on daily attendances. Therefore, we consider that social assistance is a citizenship right and responsibility of the State, so the PNAS cannot be defined preferably (or exclusively) based on vulnerabilities related to identity stigmatization without any characterization of such mechanisms nor how they operate.porAcesso AbertoLGBTCREASAssistência socialServiço SocialmasterThesisCNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::SERVICO SOCIAL