Questões raciais no Centro de Referência em Assistência Social – CRAS da cidade de São João de Meriti: desafios para psicólogas e psicólogos

Abstract

The present research aims to analyze the implementation of the legal guidelines regulated by the Federal Council of Psychology - CFP to combat racism trough psychology in the basic protection of the single service of Social assistance – SUAS. To achieve this objective, semi-structured interviews were conducted with four psychologists working in the CRAS of São João de Meriti, along with participating observations and bibliographic review, based on the guiding Code of Professional Ethics of Psychologist The CFP Resolution Nº 018/2002; The document “Racial relations technical references for the performance of psychologists of the CFP (2017)”; and the document “Technical references for the performance of the psychologist in the CRAS/SUAS of CREPOP (2007)”. This paper proposes to answer how racial issues cross the practices of psychologists working in the reference centers in Social assistance – CRAS of São João de Meriti, in an approximation of the debate on ethnic-racial relations and the practices of acting in the CRAS/SUAS. After the analysis of the results , it was found that although racism is one of the most important debates in our country, in which there is a legal mobilization to cope with it, including by the organs that regulate the exercise of Psychology in Brazil, as for example the CFP Resolution No. 018/2002, which establishes norms of action for psychologists in relation to prejudice and racial discrimination, psychology still lacks theoretical and practical framework that supports its performance in Basic protection of SUAS.