A Psicologia no SUAS: considerações acerca da inserção do psicólogo em processos de trabalho coletivos na política de assistência social

Abstract

This dissertation is part of the interest in deepening the discussions between psychology and social assistance policy, a field in which the psychologist has been called to act in a very expressive way in the last two decades, being considered a mandatory professional to integrate the multidisciplinary reference teams of the Single System of Social Assistance (SUAS). The insertion in this new area of action - and in public policies, in general - points to an important change in the profile of the profession, which is becoming more and more enrolled in salaried labor relations. Faced with this scenario, the research aimed at analyzing the insertion of psychologists in the collective work processes of public welfare policy, based on the understanding that this analysis requires na expansion of the theoretical-methodological field of Psychology to investigate other determinations that impact on professional insertion and performance, regarding the effects that the social division of labor and the status of employment have on professional work. In this sense, the understanding of professional practice as work and the theoretical-analytical perspective of enrollment in collective work processes were taken as important theoretical assumptions, from which a theoretical-bibliographical and documentary research was developed, based on historical-dialectic materialism method. Through this theoretical-methodological contribution, the research has followed investigative axis considered as fundamental mediations for the analysis of the insertion of Psychology in social assistance policy, related to the constitution of the scope of public policy, the main trends in the organization of collective work in this policy, the particular characteristics of the theoretical production and debate carried out in Psychology and the arguments involved in the institutional requirements for the insertion and determination of the specificities of the role of the psychologist in SUAS. The analysis of such axes, resulting from bibliographic and documentary research, was organized from analytical categories such as the socio-historical meaning of Psychology, work management and the collective character of work processes in SUAS, the interdisciplinary-indifferentiation binomial and the role of the psychologist in social welfare policy. It was possible to observe that the reflection on the factors that go through the condition of wage-earning and affect the insertion and performance of professionals is not carried out in a deep and explicit way in the theoretical production in Psychology about the insertion in the scope of SUAS. These productions, although heterogeneous, present a consensus regarding the questioning about the lack of clarity about the specific contributions of the psychologist to the performance at SUAS. It has been observed, through documental analysis, that such strangeness is related to the tendency of undifferentiation of work processes in social assistance policy, made explicit by the absence of precise institutional indications regarding the competencies and attributions of the specialties that compose collective work, although, contradictorily, the constitution of such policy also expresses the tendency of growing specialization of social work by emphasizing the importance of interdisciplinarity in its work processes.