Uma reflexão ética sobre o sigilo no trabalho profissional de assistentes sociais em tempos de teletrabalho

Abstract

The meaning of secrecy in the brazilian Social Work is constituted according to the theoretical-methodological and ethical-political foundations appropriated by the profession in its process of institutionalization in the country. In view of this, due to the contradictory nature of the profession, secrecy does not have a univocal meaning, a fact that makes it difficult for social workers to apprehend it in their daily work in institutions. However, the Social Service has historically positioned itself with confrontations and resistance to the impositions of capital, explained by the emancipatory values that underlie its professional project, called ethical- political. However, in times of teleworking, questions arise about the challenges to guarantee secrecy in this type of service that has spread across the professional category, especially after the Covid-19 pandemic. Therefore, the object of investigation of this work is the understanding of the functionality of secrecy, from the theoretical-methodological and ethical-political directions that historically built its meaning in the Brazilian Social Service and its use in the face of telework of social workers in the Courts. of Children and Youth of the Court of Justice of the State of São Paulo.