Pessoa com deficiência e Serviço Social: produção de conhecimento e prática profissional

Abstract

The present work aims to bring contributions to think about the social worker practice in attention to the disabled person and their family, with emphasis on the protagonism of these subjects in spaces of social participation. For this, we examined works published on the Annals of the Brasilian Social Workers Congress – CBAS (2010, 2013, 2016, 2019), and in eight magazines on the Social Service area, from the last ten years. We approached the category of gender to analyze the responsability of the care for the disabled person and examined the practice of social workers in a military institution, clipping the possibilities of intervention in assisting family members from disabled people. Based on the assumption that the reality is in constant movement, we have as basis the social theory method, in view of going beyond the appearance of the facts and because this is the most adequated method for unveiling the inherent processes from the bourgeois society. The interest in carrying out this study, little debated in the academic, is defined for the necessity of an investigation that enable analyze and socialize a segment from the category, often unknown and strange to the group of social workers. We start from the hypotesis that the knowledge production in Social Service area turned to the disabled person and the practice performed by the social workers is incipiente, specially when it comes to a military institution. Because it is a socio-occupational space where prevails the pilars sustained in the principles of hierarchy and discipline, at the beginning, in a military institution, it seems to exist the impossibility to concretize an emancipatory professional project, as well as perform activities that meet the social participation. The social worker acting analysis was centered in the professional experience, captured in its historicity, in the Social Assistance National Politics (PNAS), in the Defence of the Rights of the Disabled Person Council at Baixada Fluminense and in a military institution, considering the daily professional practice that reveals itself in front of possibilities and obstacles presents in the professional walking. The study based on the survey carried out in eight magazines in the Social Service area and in the Annals from the CBAS found that productions from the category, over the past 10 years, related with the attendance of the disabled person, are rare. Despite the little production, we found that it meets the ethical-political project, contributes to seek for the realization of users’ rights and ratifies that the social service workers knowledge walks with the social politics that runs through the study of the disabled person.