Serviço social no poder judiciário: problematizando a utilização dos instrumentos e técnicas no exercício profissional do assistente social

Abstract

The present study consists in problematization the utilization of instruments and techniques on the professional exercise of the social worker at the Minas Gerais’s Judiciary Power. Its porpouse was to bring instruments and techniques into a dialogue, after realizing that few studies about the theme were published, despite its great importance on the practice of the profession’s development. Problematize this study’s object required a search for the Social Work’s professional project, since we comprehended that only by reaching its meanings and goals would be possible to understand that these techniques and instruments must reflect both ethical and political directions of the practice in the profession. It required, as well, the presentation and the debate about authors from the 90’s, which elected this theme as a study object. In fact, all theoretical sources used to analize the eminently qualitative results of the research performed with Social Workers came from these authors. The study’s main objective was the way these professionals use the referred instruments and techniques. On this line of thought, the study’s results pointed us to how these professionals are using the techniques and instruments while working on the Judiciary Power, what allowed us to immerse on the theme, but also conducted us to a reflection about some aspects of this profession’s exercise and about the professional project daily reaffirmed on this ambient as well.