Twelfth International Conference on Health, Wellness & Society

Abstract

Social Work began formal activities in Brazil in 1936 when the feeling of dissatisfaction among the working class was growing potently. The profession created its space serving the interests of the ruling class. The professionals focused on the control and the return of the misfits to normal life, they acted on the individual behavior and personalities of the individuals. A blaming, punitive and disciplinary practice. From the 1960s, the profession begins a movement of rupture with the elite and the current power and assumes the uncompromising defense of the working class based on Critical Social Theory. This study presents data on a bibliographic review of the production of Social Work in the period 2020-2021 on the Covid-19 pandemic and its reflexes in Brazil. The results show that professionals increasingly defend public policies, denounce the neoliberal agenda of the Brazilian government and the broad setback of the rights of the Brazilian population, denounce the systematic attacks of the federal government on science, nature, workers and the needs of society. population. The challenge pointed out is the deep crisis that Brazil is experiencing and that transcends the pandemic due to the neoliberal policy that increases the economic crisis and brutalizes the working and living conditions of the majority of the Brazilian people, expanding social inequality. It is highlighted in the production the possibilities of confrontation and resistance as socio-educational actions aimed at the population’s access to services and social rights and encouraging collective practices of social control.

Presenters

Maria Isabel Barros Bellini
Professor, Social Work, Sociology and Political Science, Pontifical Catholic University - School of Public Health, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil