O Serviço Social brasileiro na entrada do século XXI: formação, trabalho, pesquisa, dimensão investigativa e a particularidade da saúde

Abstract

This thesis aims to unravel the mediations and contradictions that are linked to the Brazilian Social Service at the beginning of the 21st century, from the debate of training and professional work and its particularities in health area, focusing on research and investigative dimension. So that could be possible, the qualitative method was based on Marxism and was articulated to exploratory research, through literature, desk research and field. The latter (field) was held with the President of ABEPSS, management 2013-2014, through semi- structured interview, which was conducted to evaluate the place of research and investigative dimension in vocational training. On the other hand, it was carried out structured interviews with seven social workers, health care workers and registered internship supervisors at UFF in Campos / RJ, to evaluate the work undertaken by the social worker in health care and, from there, examine the place that the research and investigative dimension are exerted in their activities. This proposal was guided on the criteria of the Ministry of Health / National Health Board / National Research Ethics Commission (CONEP) involving human subjects, following the recommendations of Resolution 196/96 of the National Health Council. Overall, the results indicate that neo-liberalism of the 21st century, supported by international organizations guidelines, has been reverberating on higher education policy through border dilution between the public and the private, of changes in the conception of education, that is linked to the market and the deterioration of professional training. This situation affects the educational project of the current Social Services, through the low quality of education and the alleviation of research and the capacity of building knowledge critically and independently. This reality is linked to the fact that this profession suffers the general processes of precarious work, their conditions and relationships in the current scenario. These factors, linked to other determinants goals of professional work, have contributed to the threat to the intellectual dimension of the work in the perspective of the ethical-political project of Social Work