O trabalho da/o assistente social nos Centros de Atenção Psicossocial (CAPS) de Juiz de Fora/MG

Abstract

This master's thesis in Social Work seeks to problematize and understand the realization of the professional work of social workers in the Psychosocial Care Centers (CAPS) in Juiz de Fora - MG, how these professionals act and materialize their work, formalize their actions and on which theoretical-methodological, ethical-political and technical-operative foundations are based on their interventions. This research constitutes a proposal to analyze the limits and challenges for carrying out the professional work of the social worker in the psychosocial care model, with the CAPS of Juiz de Fora - MG (CAPS Leste, CAPS IJ, CAPS Casa Viva, CAPSad, CAPS Liberdade) as a backdrop for this action, within the scope of micropolitics, in a macrosocial context in which the Mental Health Policy is located. In this perspective, as this socio-occupational space of Social Work is inserted in the logic of the Unified Health System, an attempt was made to identify, through the historical trajectory of health policy and, especially, mental health, how the current configuration of CAPS reflects on work professional routine and what are the limits and challenges encountered by social workers, as well as the strategies they use in carrying out their work. For this, a historical rescue of Social Work as a profession and its approach to the Mental Health policy was carried out, deepening the work category to finally identify, through the professionals themselves, the limit situations, the challenges and the possibilities for action.