Este artigo aborda o Serviço Social brasileiro como profissão e área do conhecimento, ressaltando sua dimensão intelectual e qualificando-a como uma particularidade nos âmbitos continental e mundial do Serviço Social. Aponta evidências deste protagonismo, dentre elas, a natureza das comunicações científicas nos eventos latino-americanos e mundiais, a ampliação das citações de autores do Serviço Social em produções das ciências sociais e humanas e o crescimento da demanda pelas pós-graduações em Serviço Social de outras áreas do conhecimento. Desenvolve a hipótese de que o Serviço Social como área do conhecimento supera os imperativos imediatos da intervenção, contribuindo para a construção de uma massa crítica, donde o seu papel intelectual na formação de uma cultura teórica e política que se contrapõe à hegemonia dominante, protagonizada pela esquerda marxista no Brasil. Esta dimensão mantém unidade com o exercício profissional, contudo faz uma distinção entre o significado do Serviço Social enquanto área do conhecimento e profissão.

In this work it is argued the relation enters the educative character of the Social Service of the Commerce and the orientações of the politics for control of the work force, as well as the consequences of the assimilation of these orientações for the diligent classroom. For the development of this research, it was used as metodológico resource the bibliographical research and the documentary one. The description-critical perspective was the used theoretical referencial for the accomplishment of the research and the exposition of the studied object. It is defended thesis of that the SESC would have as objective to contribute for the capitalist economic development, guaranteeing way social rendering of services the maintenance and the social control on the diligent classroom of the commerce. Desvelamos that the educative assistance given by the SESC contributes to keep a force of work psicossocialmente adjusted to the period of training of development of the international capital. It is considered that this educative action if inserts in a set of actions directed toward the maintenance of the hegemony of the capital, articulated with the strategies of efetivação of private social politics to reduce the paper and the participation of the State in offers of social services...

This work analyzes the institutional-politician insertion of the Social Service in the Brazilian Providence in the period of 1960-2003, demonstrating that the same is related to the determination partner-economic and politics of the society crossed by the conflict between the capital and the work. And, this makes with that the development of the profession in this politics presents stability/instability movements. The inquiry involved referring metodologics procedures to the bibliographical research, the documentary one and the exploratory empirical research. This was carried through because, for the analysis of the study object, the inquiry of the dynamics of practical concrete professionals in the scope of the providence politics was necessary. For this, we carry through interviews opened in two social assistants who had had intense performance in the Social Service in the Providence in Alagoas, with the objective to rescue the beginning of the practical professional in the State of Alagoas, besides searching answers for gaps and questionings that had appeared in elapsing of the inquiry process. The choice of the universe of the providence politics is supported in its ample meaning as the nucleus of the public politics on which the possibilities of a State of Well-being in Brazil had been constructed. The development of the inquiry made it possible for us to understand the relation between the social politics specifically...

The present study deals with the exercise of professional social workers in private health care plans registered with the Regional Council of Medicine/RN, in the city of Natal/RN, with regards to the demands/tasks, work conditions, and the professional response, given the climate of restructuring the capital. The set of socio-historical transformations, as a results of the dynamic capitalist, is a process of new configurations in relation to state and society that interfere directly in relation to working conditions, social rights historically won by workers. In this context, the operator of health plans arises as a possibilities to provide services in health, through the logic of the market, in which the subjects of law, become consumers contributing to the displacement of the responsibilities of the State. Obligating workers to lessen the burden with the reproduction of their workforce. This involves changing societal context for social service, since it is one of the professions that are active in terms of the immediate social issue, and come as part of the collective worker. From qualitative research based on a theoretical and methodological perspective and critical dialectics, it was possible to unveil some features and trends of the exercise of(a) social operators in private health care plans. The survey results indicated that : a) the demands and duties for certain social service...

This dissertation aims to analyze the social direction in which the Student Movement in Social Work in Brazil (ENESSO) has gone through. This is done considering how the functioning of the National Executive, the Brazilian Social Work Student union has operated. The research analyzed their political position regarding the university as well as professional education in the period of 2003 to 2008. The study s theoretical and methodological object was obtained according to its structural, juncture, and time determinants. All of the mentioned elements considered the contemporary capital crisis and its implications towards the State and Society emphasizing specifically the changes that occurred in the University regarding professional education. For the purpose of data collection and production, a documental and field research was realized. Thus, interviews were done considering one manager of each management period of the ENESSO group in the time span of 2003 to 2008. Some subjects that represented the Brazilian Social Work Teaching and Research Association (ABEPSS) as well as were also interviewed. These subjects have had a relevant role in partnership with these entities and represented students in the contemporary scene. Results suggest that ENESSO has developed work that defends a project of a public...

This paper analyzes the political participation of Social Workers at the Social Service Regional Council Region 14th. The theoretical and methodological framework of this investigation has as its perspective the totality of social life and its determining relations within the object of study. To the production, analysis and collecting of data it was used a qualitative approach considering a bibliographical and documental research as well as a series of twelve interviews with 2005-2008 and 2008-2011 managing counselors of CRESS/RN. It was also used the data obtained from other special interviews held with the social workers in the period between 2007 and 2008. The results of this study allow and affirm the political dimension of Caseworkers and the CRESS/RN as a space of political activity with opportunities for effective and collective elaboration of strategies in order to reach the fulfillment of the ethical and professional policy of the Social Work. From a historical viewpoint, the beginning of this process is marked by the struggle for democracy, the end of military dictatorship, the establishment of the State of Human Rights. The Democratization of the so called Federal Council of Social Workers and its Regional Councils of Social Workers...

The work of the professional of social worker in social security policy, it is seen wrapped in an adverse situation to consolidate the ethical-political project work, marked by the materialization of the neoliberal policy essentially promotes the reduction of social rights historically achieved by the class struggle worker. In this sense, with the aim of analyzing the statement of work of the Social Worker in Social Security, their struggles and challenges to the realization of rights, against the current situation is that it renders the theoretical basis of the discussions to be fought. Thus, we performed procedures such as methodological research literature and documents in detail of our analytical categories in order to base the discussion on social security policy. The survey area covered was the Executive Management of Social Security Mossoró and Natal, representing a total of 07 (seven) surveyed social workers who work in the Department of Social Work. Thus, the research allowed us a comparison with the work of Social Workers and this allowed us to reach some conclusions: first, the fact that Social Security does not guarantee in its entirety, the conditions necessary for the work of Social Worker, taking into account the lack of human and material resources for its realization...

The study is about the non-insertion of the Social Assistant in the work market of Natal/RN, emphasizing the perception those Social Assistants have about this problem. We try to analyze the relation that those workers figure out about their non-insertion in the work market and their professional formation. The problem is related to the present unemployment rates in our society, which results of the changes that have affected the world of work as a whole in the wake of the Productive Restructuring and State Reformation supported by the neo-liberalism ideological system. We realize that these factors have deeply affected the configurations of the work market in general; especially those related to professions whose challenges multiply obstacles not only to the insertion of new workers, but to their staying in their job. We note that the reality of the work market has been built up on the decrease of the work force opportunities and the increase of the selectivity criteria to insertion of new workers. In consequence, unemployment rates increase everywhere, regardless of place, profession or education level of the workers. Work and management changes have brought about new challenges to professional formation. The presence of neo-liberalism productive and market logic demands a more adequate professional formation to work market from their candidates to a job. Due to the numberless difficulties workers face nowadays to enter the world of work...

In the sociability of the capital, the challenges to the consolidation of social security as a public policy become expressive, which has implications for social security services, particularly for Social Works who works for the security and fulfillment of social rights. Therefore, in this context of denial of these rights becomes relevant the work of social worker, as a professional committed to the ethical-political project and the Matrix Theory and Methodology of Social work, which potentiate the action able to establish professional articulated strategies for the strengthening of collective struggles for equality in society. Thus, this study examines the instrumentality of social work in the contemporary world and its contribution to the realization of rights. For this, we conducted a literature review, using authors dealing with the issue, as Behring (2008), Boschetti (2003), Mota (1995), Guerra (2007) among others, as well as documentary research through laws, decrees, instructions Normative, Internal Guidelines, and especially the analysis of the Matrix itself of Social Work in welfare. We use also of paramount importance to our analysis - the field research, using techniques such as semi-structured interview and questionnaire. The research enables the identification of important aspects of the subject studied...

Can be declared that throughout the historical trajectory of the Brazilian Social Work, the men in the Social Work profession, women in the Social Work profession in his/her professional activity, present an educational dimension that runs through various social and occupational spaces, particularly in the area of Social Assistance Policy. Based on this premise, this present Dissertation, problematize the educational dimension present on the interventional process, in Social Work on the ambit of the Social Assistance Policy in Natal / RN city Brazil in the contemporary scene. Having thus, specific objectives that orientate the research of the interventional process of Social Work in the social assistance policy, analyzing of the apprehension of Social Work professionals on the educational dimension, in their daily work professional and the verification of the relationship between the educational dimension, to the professional action of both men in the Social Work profession and women in the Social Work profession and the concretization of social rights on the ambit of the social assistance policy. In this sense, the theoretical and methodological procedures used for this research, are substantiated on a critical-dialectical perspective and a qualitative and quantitative approach...

Health policies in Brazil, the decentralization of SUS management responsibilities for the three spheres of government has driven the creation and regulation of the audits of health services in the National Audit Office, this is a trend of neoliberal policies imposed by international bodies like the World Bank and IMF to peripheral countries characterized by productive restructuring and reforming the state focuses on the presence of two competing projects in the area of health: Health Sector Reform Project which is based on the democratic rule of law with the assumption of health as social right and duty of the State in defending the extension of the conquest of rights and democratization of access to health care guaranteed through the public financing strategies and the effective decentralization of decisions pervaded by social control and privatized Health Project which is based on the state minimum, with a reduction in social spending or in partnerships and privatization, stronger nonprofit sector, subject to capitalist interests, is made effective through strategies targeting health policy and refilantropização actions. In this context, the present study is an analysis on the work of social audits of public health in infants from a qualitative and quantitative approach...

Unveiling the link between the Social Services and the Judiciary is the object of this work, since the judiciary is constituted as one of the socio-occupational areas of the profession in the sphere of the state, seize the demands placed on professionals which work becomes relevant , considering that these are embody the multiple expressions of social issues, constituting a challenge to social work, while influencing the contributions that the profession has engendered in the defense and expansion rights. It constitutes an analysis from the standpoint of theoretical and methodological basis Qualiquantitative taking for granted the rights violations against children and adolescents in their social, legal and historical guide to the topic. For this we used a theoretical Marxist Behring (2009), Colman (2008), Faleiros (2205), Faria (1999, 2001), Fávaro (2007, 2008), Iamamoto (1985, 1992, 2002, 2006, 2007) Yazbek, Marx (1983), Netto (1994), Nicholas (1984), Pequeno (2009), Rizinni (1997, 2008), Santos (2009), Sales (2006), Telles (1999), Tonet (2009), among others. Besides literature, empirical research conducted through semi-structured interviews using a script and written records and systematic observation / free during interviews. The subjects were 06 social workers from the area of the judiciary to act on Justice for Children and Youth...

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior; A dissertação aborda o Serviço Social na educação em Natal/RN apreendendo e analisando as tendências dos perfis pedagógicos dos profissionais em seus diferentes espaços ocupacionais de ensino, incluindo instituições públicas, particulares e sem fins lucrativos. Para esta construção analisa-se o exercício profissional dos assistentes sociais nesses espaços, em que se originam e se encontram num cenário de interesses divergentes que convivem em plena tensão e luta de classes, cuja intervenção profissional se insere no movimento de reprodução das relações sociais. As instituições de ensino são espaços sócio-institucionais inseridos neste contexto e facilitadores para a compreensão dos perfis pedagógicos do assistente social, uma vez que o seu papel político e sua prática educativa definem com maior clareza as relações pedagógicas do assistente social. No processo de intervenção, o assistente social nestas instituições, se volta ao atendimento das condições materiais dos usuários estudantes e suas necessidades transformadas em demanda e requisições - via os serviços sociais prestados por essas instituições, ao mesmo tempo, em que intervém na maneira de pensar e agir desses indivíduos envolvidos no seu cotidiano profissional na perspectiva de um direcionamento ideológico/político mediante ação educativa. Neste sentido...

This research presents the labors developed by the Social Service unto socially excluded HIV/Aids positives at public hospitals in Rio Grande do Norte (RN). It purposes to identify and to analyze the demands brought by the holder onto the Social Service professional as well as the challenges the latter face to minister to the former. It privileges, from the methodological viewpoint, the qualitative and quantitative analysis with the application of questionnaires, direct observation, semi-structured interviews and bibliographic references. Data were collected from 12 (twelve) social assistants who work at Giselda Trigueiro Hospital in Natal (7) and Rafael Fernandes Hospital in Mossoró (5). The central hypothesis that guided this study is that the social inclusion/exclusion process experienced by the HIV/Aids positive on society implies a demand for the Social Service that is inserted in the public health context (specially in HIV-referred public hospitals), whose agents, however, when attempting to answer those demands, meet obstacles due to both the precariousness of public health services and the social complexity that concerns the HIV/Aids epidemic. Results point out that, de facto, the HIV/Aids epidemic, because of the social exclusion/inclusion process to which the holder is subject results a demand for the social agents at hospitals. Demands rise principally from the patient s life condition...

The present study is about the professional exercise of the Social Worker in ONGs associated with the ABONG in Natal city, state of Rio Grande do Norte, referring to the work conditions, claims and professional responses in front of the capital restructuration circumstances. The group of socio-historical transformations, as a result of the after-1970 dynamic capitalism, conducts a process of new configurations in the relationship between State and society that directly affect the social question nowadays, destroying social rights historically conquered for the workers. In this context, the ONGs assume a strategical social function of the social question, contributing with the change of responsibilities with the social from the State to the third sector. This social movement causes changes to the Social Work since this is one of the professions that act on the immediate expressions of the social question. After a qualitative research based on a theoricalmethodological critical and dialectical perspective, it was possible to discover some contradictions, details and tendencies of the professional exercise of the Social Worker in ONGs. Summarizing, the results of the research show that: a) it was detected a tendency of precarization, instability...

Este artigo trata dos caminhos da pesquisa na área do Serviço Social. Parte da polêmica quanto à possibilidade/capacidade do Serviço Social como prática social produzir conhecimentos. Resgata nesse debate a 'guerra das ciências' travada entre físicos e matemáticos com analistas do social, desconsiderando a dimensão científica da pesquisa no âmbito social. Analisa o crescimento da produção científica no Serviço Social através das dissertações e teses dos Programas de Pós-Graduação em Serviço Social, para tanto comenta análises de Iamamoto, Silva e Silva e Carvalho, indica a necessidade da constituição de política de pesquisa a orientar a comunidade epistêmica em Serviço Social, que deve se articular em rede de núcleos de pesquisa.

Diferentes atores, interesses e idéias estão em discussão no campo político sobre qual é a melhor política de drogas a ser implementada pelo governo brasileiro. Uma combinação desigual de forças se explicita na atualidade em direções antagônicas: de um lado, aumentam-se os efeitos do proibicionismo às drogas e sua conseqüente política criminal associada às configurações da privatização do fundo público; e de outro, cresce a organização política para resistir e lutar para reinventar uma nova sociabilidade não criminalizada com os usos das drogas. A prática, investigação e lutas do Serviço Social brasileiro participam dessa crítica hegemonia da área das drogas.

Este artigo apresenta uma reflexão sobre Serviço Social e questão social, tomando por base as idéias e analises veiculada na produção teórica de cientistas sociais e de professores e profissionais do Serviço Social a partir de 1996 até neste início de milênio. Procura relacionar o entendimento que se tem sobre a questão social e o posicionamento da profissão do Serviço Social diante dela. O serviço Social toma a questão social como eixo central, tanto sobre o ponto de vista teórico, quanto sobre a sua prática. O que requer tornar vivo o debate sobre esta relação, onde também comparecem as categorias: trabalho, proteção social e Estado. Este último, como regulador das relações que se estabelece neste campo. 

O presente artigo busca explorar o contexto do estágio supervisionado em Serviço Social tendo como ponto de partida as políticas de estágio brasileiras. É certo que a importância do estágio aumenta frente às profundas transformações no mundo do trabalho e ao constante desenvolvimento científico e tecnológico, provocando o acirramento das discussões sobre o tema e instigando a academia a repensar seu processo formador, notadamente o Serviço Social. O estágio tem como finalidade a vinculação da educação formal ao mundo do trabalho e a prática social. No Serviço Social, o estágio supervisionado constitui-se como elemento do processo formativo, sendo que nesse locus, o estagiário tem a possibilidade de decifrar as relações institucionais e elaborar novos conhecimentos a partir do conhecimento das expressões da questão social que constituem o objeto de intervenção profissional. Nesse sentido, o estágio prático tem como função preponderante contribuir para que o estagiário aproprie-se do significado social do Serviço Social e da construção de sua identidade profissional, individual e coletiva. O desafio posto, na contemporaneidade, é o de direcionar o estagiário à formação reflexiva e analítica...

Este artigo, resultado parcial de pesquisa desenvolvida na UNESP/Franca, aborda a visão dos supervisores de campo em relação à dimensão educativa inerente à supervisão de campo em Serviço Social. A matéria-prima da supervisão em Serviço Social é o agir profissional, que na perspectiva da totalidade, compreende não só a estratégia de ação, os instrumentos, mas todo o processo de ensino-aprendizagem, análise da realidade, fundamentos teórico-metodológicos, ético-políticos e técnico-operativos; configura-se como um espaço fecundo de construção de mediações. Considerando o Serviço Social como um trabalho social, político, histórico, cuja ação profissional cotidiana é direcionada para a construção de uma sociedade efetivamente justa e democrática, podemos compreender o significado do estágio, pois é através dele que o estudante tem a primeira oportunidade de adentrar neste universo. O estágio supervisionado configura-se como um dos componentes fundamentais no processo de formação profissional do assistente social, pois é através dele que se viabiliza o exercício da práxis, a vivência refletida do conteúdo apreendido no meio acadêmico, a articulação da teoria com a prática. Ao atuar enquanto supervisor de campo...