CHALLENGES TO THE PRACTICE OF SOCIAL WORKERS

Abstract

Social workers face a world of work that persistently requires increasingly competent and adequate labor to face the constant social transformations in the country, where the profession must transit in intervention scenarios that present constant challenges. In this context, the objective of this study was to present, through a bibliographic research, the challenges faced by social workers in their professional practice. It was found that one of the greatest challenges that permeate the professional practice, to go beyond the fundamental analysis of the social reality in which the user of the services is inserted, is the creation of feasible intervention alternatives, and it is necessary for the social worker to expand not only his theoretical framework, but mainly his technical-operative framework for the execution of competent actions that can be effective,  to materialize and preserve social rights. Faced with this scenario, social workers face the challenge of not uncritically implementing social policies, but must support the interests of the working class, mobilizing to denounce situations of injustice and inequality.