Acolhimento é cuidado? O trabalho de profissionais da psicologia em instituições de acolhimento para adultos na Assistência Social

Abstract

This research aimed to comprehend and discuss the practice of psychologists in shelters for adults and families in the scope of the Unified Social Assistance System (SUAS). Hence, seven semi structured interviews were made, as well as the writing of a field journal about the routine of the researcher as a psychologist who works at a shelter and a bibliographic research of papers about shelters in scientific journals. Throughout this work, it was made a choice to converse with intellectuals from the Global South who critically discuss the theme of coloniality, and in special a feminist cartographic methodology. Arguments are made about the construction of the Social Assistance field and the Shelters in Brazil, and how this inheritance crosses and composes Psychology practice at SUAS. The content of the interviews and field journal will be addressed in relation to three analytical categories: Help, Defend and Control. Additionally, we will weave considerations about care and embrace/shelter, and draw conclusion gathering what was discussed.