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This article deals with the private attributions of social workers in the context of public calamity triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic whose main characteristic, in the social and economic sphere, was the deepening of social inequality. In this way, our objective is to bring to the debate the challenges posed to the profession through its private attributions in a context that also marked significant changes in performance through the new demands that required new skills from the professional, highlighting the need for continued education. From a methodological point of view, we rely on bibliographic references and on the main documents that support the profession. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this article is to reflect on the processes of theoretical incorporation in the professional environment of Social Work and its consequences in contemporary training and performance. As well as reflecting on strategies for valuing the intention to break with the conservative tradition in which the profession was created. For this, we used bibliographic reference and empirical material from data collected in the last research of the Group of Studies in Social Work, Professional Formation and Social Policy (GEPSS/UFPA), of which we are part. The lines that illustrate our analysis come from semi-structured interviews with professionals trained under the aegis of the new Curriculum Guidelines at UFPA and at private universities both on-site and at a distance. We conclude this article with the definition that neoconservatism or postmodernity has significant influences on our formation, but that do not go beyond the need for knowledge and appreciation of the intention of rupture. This indicates the urgency of highlighting this antagonistic debate in the professional sphere in order to strengthen the profession, which has historically taken a critical position. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article sought to problematize and analyze neoliberal counterreforms in Brazil and their inflections for the professional work of social workers who work in social security, in particular, at GEX/Belém-Pará. It was based on the partial results of an empirical research on the work and health of these professionals working in social security, based on a qualitative approach. The data collection instruments were questionnaires and individual interviews with 9 of the 16 social workers who work in that management. In the light of Marxist theory and the dialectical historical materialist method, the data obtained were analyzed, allowing the observation that the neoliberal counter-reforms since the 1970s have been strategies to face the crisis of contemporary capitalism, causing profound changes in the politics of social security, with inflections for the professional work of the social worker, in general and, in particular, at GEXBelém/Pará. The inflections of these counter-reforms for the professional work of these professionals at - GEX/Belém-Pará are manifested both in terms of form with the introduction of new technologies (INSS Digital), accelerating the demand for immediate responses, etc., in terms of content, as the State reduces the budget for social security policy and promotes, in social security, private insurance that favors the profits of international bankers, with the result that the demands for Social Work in this space increase. socio-copational, leading to the intensification of work caused by the adoption of new forms of workforce management, such as polyvalence and goal management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article reinforces in the present time, the expanded dynamics of financial capital is intensified, the importance of the method of historical dialectical materialism based on the theoretical rigor of Marx's social theory, and its incorporation and deepening by the Brazilian Social Service. In this sense, the article proposes, through a literature review in this theoretical-cultural tradition, to deepen the discussion between the fundamentals of Marxism and the consolidation of the Project Political Ethical of Social Service, in the apprehension of the theory / practice unit based on dialectical reason. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents partial results collected from a bibliographic research made on the Social Service’s master degree college, with the support by CAPES. The objective of this study is to analyze healthcare policy and the social assistant’s work for effecting healthcare right in the contemporary setting. As a result, it is verified that healthcare right and SUS are conquests from the working class for better life conditions and meeting its basic needs; and the Social Service is a profession that effectively contributes for people’s access to healthcare actions and services. However, with the advancement of neoliberalism, attack, and regression on social rights, the assistant’s work on SUS is tensioned with expressive challenges, complex demands and deepening of expressions on the healthcare’s social question. It is a scenario that demands critic and propositional action, aiming towards the ethic-political professional project and the sanitation reform, constructing strategies and collective answers defending this right’s universality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article brings reflections on the impact of the socio-political setting of urban social movements in professional Social Service intervention. It was based on the Social Service's need of narrowing relationship with the social movements. Reveals the importance of building possibilities in objectification of professional work to achieve strategic of professional purpose. The political intervention in the fight for the right to the city makes an effective contribution in resistance to beset alienation and pervades the everyday professional in the context of relations between social classes. From the methodological point of view was made a bibliographical research. As regards the professional Social Service intervention was of dimensions that include the ethical-political commitment of professionals and technical-operative competence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to present the organization of caregivers, family or not, facing discharge of dependent elderly. The results point that the caregivers, despite the difficulties, find strategies to cope with the demands of care to the elderly. We can note a mismatch between the responsibilities assigned to the families and the support services that should be offered by existing public policies. This issue needs to be discussed, in order to give greater visibility, because the revaluation of the family in public policies can mean a retreat of the State responsibilities in meeting the needs of population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this article is to problematize the work of Social Worker in an Adult Intensive Care Unit (ICU) highlighting the challenges regarding the (in) visibility of their work. Thus, we used as methodological procedures the bibliographic research, the documentary, in addition to the field research from half-structured type interviews conducted at the institution with the multi-professional team that works at the ICU. The data analysis was through content analysis, through categories. The study points out how biomedical model can contribute to the perpetuation of a fragmented practice in health care. The results indicate that there is a difference between the work processes of medical professions (focusing on specializations) and Social Work with general training. As well, there is no interdisciplinary work and the (in) visibility is linked to two factors: absence of this methodology as an alternative to make compartmentalized, as well as by this differentiation of professional training. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses about work and illness in Social Service and guiding axis the context of the contemporary crisis of capital, and the new forms of precariousness and intensification of the work. The thoughts presented are the result of a qualitative research conducted with social workers. The screen research aimed to identify the factors present in professional practice that trigger processes of suffering and illness. The results show that, in a context of profound transformations marked by fierce social issue, by the attack on labor rights, the retraction and deregulation of work arising problems from that process. All this directly affects the materiality and sociability of the living subject, which influence the physical and mental health of social workers, in the forms of objectivity and subjectivity of their work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]