Potencialidades, desafios e limites do exercício profissional do assistente social na linha de frente: Creas como palco

Abstract

This dissertation constitutes a proposal for analysis of the limits and challenges to the realization of the professional practice of social worker in "front line", having CREAS of Ouro Branco municipalities, Conselheiro Lafaiete and Congonhas as a privileged observation space. In this perspective, and this socio-occupational space of Social Work inserted in Social Work policy in the logic of the Unified Social Assistance, we sought to identify through the historical trajectory of social policies and especially social assistance, as the current conformation the CREAS rebate professional practice everyday and the limits and challenges faced by social workers, as well as the strategies that they use in performing their professional practice. For this, a brief historical review of social work was performed as a profession and its approach to social assistance policy to finally identify through the eyes of the professionals themselves the extreme situations, challenges and possibilities of action.