Adoecimento mental de assistentes sociais no exercício da profissão: um estudo bibliográfico

Abstract

The present study entitled "The mental illness of social workers in professional practice: a bibliographical study", aimed to reflect on the process of mental illness of these professionals resulting from work. In this way, it was delimited in the theoretical productions carried out by the Social Service and published in the virtual annals of the Social Services & Society and Katálysis magazines between the years 2010 to 2019 about the mental illness of social workers in professional practice. Its general objective was to identify publications about the mental illness of social workers in the magazine Katálysis and in the magazine Serviços Social & Sociedade between 2010 and 2019. The specific objectives for the construction of this research were to discuss the impacts of precariousness the work in the professional exercise of (the) social workers; Check the main methodologies used in studies on the mental illness of social workers and understand the main causes within the professional practice that generate mental illness in social workers. It was a bibliographical research, with a quali-quantitative approach, and with an exploratory purpose. The object of the research was the theoretical production on the mental illness of social workers carried out by the Social Service, with the aim of analyzing how social workers have seen the problem in their own professional class, as well as contributing and reflect on the scarce theoretical production on the subject. The source of data collection were the periodicals published in those journals which have the maximum Qualis A1 score according to CNPq. A critical reading was sought in the bibliographical review according to Marx's dialectical critical method, which was the research subsidy method for the understanding of reality. In this sense, the research achieved its objectives, in which it was understood the link between objectivity and subjectivity of work in the process of mental illness of social workers, and it was observed that the precariousness of work is still one of the factors that contribute most for this illness, occurring more intensely in the current situation due to the existing capitalist mode of production, in a neoliberal government. The study also made it possible to recognize the absence of theoretical work on the mental illness of social workers in the professional class. Thus, it is expected to contribute positively to the theoretical construction on the subject for the professional class, students, and society.