O trabalho profissional do(a) assistente social: as demandas, as respostas e a potencialidade da relativa autonomia nos serviços de assistência especializada em HIV/AIDS do município de Campina Grande/PB

Abstract

The Social Service is a job that is inserted in the social and technical division of labor in capitalist sociability, understood in the process of reproduction of social relations, the professional is called to intervene in the various expressions of the "social question" through social politics. In the field of public health, the professional action focuses on the health/disease process of the population, which in the present times is mediated by setbacks in social politics and precarious working conditions.It is in this field of tensions and contradictions that the demands, the professional answers and the challenge to assure the relative independence of the profession are placed. Thus, aiming to broaden the reflections about the social worker's work in the sociooccupational space of health, this dissertation directed us to identify and analyze the demands and professional responses of the social workers who work in the specialized services of HIV/AIDS (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) in the city of Campina Grande/Paraíba, seeking to discover the relative professional independence.To this end, our analyzes are based theoretically-methodologically on the critical-dialectical method, structuring the research process in a bibliographic, documentary and empirical study, and through successive approximations of the information collected we will carry out the analytical synthesis. As a place of research, the health services that provide assistance to people living with HIV / AIDS were selected: the Testing and Counseling Center (CTA), the Specialized Assistance Service (SAE), and the Alcides Carneiro University Hospital (HUAC).The approximate results reinforce the complexity of the demands, adding the processes arising from the particularity that involves HIV/AIDS; corroborated the conditions in which responses are established, increasingly limited in relation to the objective conditions for professional practice, and revealed the daily efforts of social workers to mediate users' access to health policy, thus showing that, while the challenges and limits stress the relative independence, requires the need for mediations to ensure it.In this study, the relative independence is revealed in the tensioning of limits and in the possibilities found to meet the needs of users, through the commitment for an action in accordance with the defense of the rights of the proletarian class.