This present work brings forth the debate on education in a broad sense, starting from its ontological and constitutive character of social being, realized in all spaces of social life, and the interrelation of this theme in the curricula of the Social Work courses. It is based on the understanding that professional training must be reconciled with historical processes from a critical and comprehensive perspective in order to fulfill the role of forming critical and engaged individuals in the struggle for an emancipatory societal project. Therefore, the general objective was to investigate how the curricula of undergraduate Social Work courses in public universities in the Northeast of Brazil have addressed education. The specific objectives were to identify and analyze the presence of the theme of education in the Pedagogical Projects of undergraduate Social Work courses in public universities in the Northeast; to examine how education appears in the syllabi of courses discussing education and which theories underpin the curriculum component; to verify the bibliographic references used for the discussion of education in the curricula of undergraduate Social Work courses in public universities in the Northeast, and to identify and analyze the conception of education that underpins the training of social workers in public universities in the Northeast. The methodology used was a quantitative-qualitative approach of an exploratory and descriptive nature, based on bibliographic and documentary research. The research universe comprised 16 undergraduate Social Work courses offered at public universities in the Northeast. The documents researched were the Pedagogical Projects of Social Work courses, focusing on the programs and syllabi of the disciplines. The research data reveal, in general terms, that the curricula of undergraduate Social Work courses in public universities in the Northeast include a consistent discussion on education. We conclude that the dialogical relationship between the training project and education is something that the category has identified as imperative for some time. In view of this, it is perceived that the curricula of Social Work courses in public universities in the Northeast have been seeking ways to ensure that education does not occupy superficial or insufficient space in the training process of social workers, considering that we have noticed the commitment of universities to produce critical, propositional debates that delineate the antagonistic interests that traverse this dimension of social life, as well as to present alternative educational activities of an emancipatory and revolutionary nature as a path to the construction of a new sociability.

This study was based on exploring the complex dynamics of gender relations in the theory of social practices, analyzing the daily life of black women in post-abortion care within the scope of the Social Assistance Policy, proposing to reflect on the context of black women who had their pregnancies interrupted by the practice of abortion. Analyzing the socio-cultural experiences in which these women are inserted. Analyzing the sociocultural experiences in which these women are inserted. Seeking to unveil the representations, their impacts and symbolization attributed to the interruption of pregnancy, in the search to understand how the confrontation of this social reality that criminalizes the subjects who experience this practice occurs. The methodological path that accentuates this work is the white, Eurocentric epistemological disobedience, with the intention of disrupting the productions of knowledge in the social sciences that the academy has proposed, which produce the invisibility of other experiences. A bibliographic research was developed that involved the articulation between several theoretical and research fields, followed by semi-structured interviews with three black women, who experienced abortion itineraries in different ways, being, 1 case of abortion due to rape; 1 case of abortion induced by a third party, without the consent of the pregnant woman; and 1 case of clandestine abortion. The proposal is to bring reflections on how the State, which is structured in patriarchy, based on social and power relations surrounded by issues of gender, race and class, criminalizes abortion. The Social Assistance Reference Center (CRAS) - Parteira Rufina, where this research was developed, is one of the facilities of the Social Policy of Social Assistance. This center is located in the Recôncavo Baiano, 110 km from Salvador, in the city of Conceição do Almeida – BA, a municipality strongly marked by culturally accepted conservative values, by a colonial, catholic and coronelist logic in its social relations of production and reproduction. The results achieved in this research reveal that abortion is a public health, education and social issue. Through the narratives of the interviewees, it is possible to reflect on the need to think about new care and followup practices, also based on the specificities of black women. As well as reflecting on the construction of motherhood that reinforces gender stigmas aimed at women, through the domination of their bodies, interfering in decision-making.

This paper aims to analyze the incidence of abandonment of black women incarcerated in the Women's Correctional Facility of Salvador - BA, focusing on the process of implementation, maintenance and usefulness of prisons through an intersectional point of view. The abandonment of black women in prison is something recurrent, not only in the Penal Complex that this work analyzes, but in prisons in general. While the factors of class and race play a determining role in mass incarceration, the factor of gender has an additional weight in the abandonment of inmates. When the three factors are combined, they comprise the most incident form of violence to the individual who occupies the lowest place of the social pyramid: the black woman. Thus, this research was structured through a bibliographic review on punitive society; the emergence of punishments and prisons; the maintenance of deprivation of liberty and its effectiveness (or not); the place of the black woman in society and in Brazilian prisons and the situation of abandonment and loneliness experienced by women prisoners and co-authors of this work in the Women's Correctional Facility of Salvador - Bahia. Therefore, the first section brings the history of prisons in the world, America and Brazil. Followed by the second section that brings the reformist and punitive ideology of the society we live in, allied to the statistical data of Brazilian prisons, the profile of the prison population, the effectiveness (or not) of the punitive system and execution of the State's necropolitical policy, is structured from the conditions in which black women live in the process of imprisonment from an intersectional perspective. Finally, in the third section we present the importance of family and the State in social reintegration, the abandonment of these women and the cases of abandonment in the Women's Correctional Facility in Salvador, Bahia. The research considered that the abandonment of the family and the State to women in situation of deprivation of liberty have a direct impact, especially on black women who are crossed by racism, sexism and machismo existing in society, and that often compromises the process of social reintegration.

This dissertation focuses on the analysis of knowledge production in the area of Social Work in the Northeast region on the professional practice of social workers in education, the research is centered on the interface between Social Work in Education. The study recovers the trajectory of the profession, highlighting its intellectual development, integration with critical thinking and recognition as an area of knowledge in the Social Sciences. The central focus is to shed light on the knowledge accumulated in Social Work in relation to the work of social workers in the area of Education. The research seeks to give relevance to this production, enriching the field of Social Work in Education. The growing recognition of education as a field of activity for social workers underlies the need for this research. To strengthen the production of knowledge, postgraduate studies have played a significant role, accumulating publications that address professional performance in various social areas. With emphasis on Education, the study aims to map the trends of knowledge production in the field of Social Work, focusing on the professional practice of social workers in Education between 2015 and 2020. The research establishes as specific objectives: to map productions of Dissertations and Theses of Postgraduate Programs in the Northeast region on the theme; identify and analyze main thematic trends in productions on professional practice in Education; and explore analyzes related to professional practice in the educational context, including perspectives of education addressed in dissertations and theses. The research covered master's dissertations and a doctoral thesis from Postgraduate Programs in the area of Social Work in the Northeast region, resulting in the selection of ten productions for analysis. These productions offer contributions about the trends and perspectives of professional practice in Education, covering different levels and modalities of education. The methodology employed is a bibliographic research, based on the integrative review for identification, selection and evaluation of studies related to the research objectives. The analysis of the collected data is carried out through the Thematic analysis technique, supported by a theoretical-critical framework, legal bases and documents of the professional category. The study is inserted in the area of applied social sciences, especially in the field of Social Work, contributing to the expansion of knowledge and discussions in the area, focusing on the scientific production that emerges from the experiences of working professionals, researchers and scholars of Education.

The present work has as its theme the care in contemporary society from the perspective of the experience of women in intergenerational families, and based on a feminist approach that considers it fundamental to understand the relationships between class, race, gender and generation, in a dimension of totality, seeking to rescue a Marxist theoretical tradition, but rescued by a bias that updates and invigorates it, highlighting tools that help to understand capitalist society from critical theoretical contributions in the field of feminism, such as the Theory of Social Reproduction, for example, and the dialogue that it can establish with other aspects, such as materialist feminism and black feminism itself. This is because there is still a latent tendency in society for women figures to be responsible for carrying out domestic and care work, which historically has had an impact on their life trajectories and in all phases of it, since today there is an ever changing change greater in the profile of these women, who even when old and inserted in family dynamics marked by intergenerationality - a context raised by different aspects - continue to participate in the care cycle, not only as targets of it, but also agents. Much of this scenario is further aggravated by a neoliberal state model that, over the years, has been exempt from assuming a prominent role with regard to the social protection of these families, creating a culture of self-responsibility and individual entrepreneurship, promoting attacks on rights and social services, while making invisible who are the subjects who have borne the consequences of these dismantling. The research has a bibliographic character, and intends to analyze, based on existing empirical productions, the trends with regard to the materialization of care promoted by families and, in particular, by women, and the extent to which the individuals responsible for this care have been reached or abandoned in terms of social protection, also pointing out possible gaps and categorizing these trends, in order to point out possible analytical depths.

The present work is the product of the author's concerns accumulated over more than eight years of practicing the profession of social worker in the Social Assistance Policy. These concerns culminated in this research, which has the following general objective:To systematize and analyze the work of the social worker at the Specialized Reference Center for Social Assistance (CREAS) - Bonocô in Salvador, Bahia. And the following specific objectives: To identify how the CREAS - Bonocô is structured, taking as a parameter what is recommended in the SUAS typology and the Basic Operational Norm for Human Resources of the Unified Social Assistance System (NOB/RH/SUAS); To identify and analyze the main demands placed on the social worker in question, identifying and analyzing the professional responses presented by this social worker at the CREAS - Bonocô in Salvador, Bahia; To analyze the follow-up of socio-educators, seeking to understand whether working conditions interfere in this follow-up; To describe how the social worker thinks about the focus of her work and the results of her work, relating them to the focus and results of the collective work of the unit.The dissertation has as its main categories of foundation and analysis the categories: Work and its transformations, Work and Social Work, Social Assistance Policy with emphasis on the work of the social worker in this policy, in addition to fundamental concepts for the construction of this work, such as Social Issue, precariousness and working conditions, and the role of CREAS in social assistance policy. To this end, we chose to conduct a qualitative field research through the systematization of experience and used the field diary as the basis for data collection, as well as the institutional documents produced by the author while a social worker at the CREAS in question. We also carried out the characterization of the CREAS - Bonocô, so that it was possible to verify that its physical structure and composition of human and material resources are not in accordance with what is recommended in the SUAS Typology and the NOB/RH/SUAS, as well as it was possible to verify that this fact directly interferes in the work of the social worker in question and impacts on the ineffectiveness of the service.

This dissertation presents the results of a study whose main objective is to analyze the perceptions of christian women attending at the Women's Service Reference Center – CRAM in Itabuna-BA about religion’s influence in combating domestic violence. Therefore, we seek answers to the following question: in what ways do Protestant religions interfere in combating domestic violence against women? As a theoretical basis, this research is based on significant studies on Gender, from the perspective of authors such as Jean Scott, Helleieth Saffioti, Flávia Biroli, and, specifically, it also discusses the intersection between Gender, Religion and Domestic Violence, with studies by Claudia Ritz, Maria José Nunes, Allyne Farinha, among others. Regarding methodology, this is exploratory research, with a qualitative approach. For data collection, semi-structured interviews were carried out with eight christian women who have been monitored since 2017 by the Women's Service Reference Center (CRAM) in Itabuna - Bahia. In general, it was found, through the interviews, that the women had a diverse profile; Only one of them is still married, still vulnerable to continuing to be a victim of domestic violence. The results also highlight difficulties faced in breaking the cycle of violence. To achieve this, CRAM, in collaboration with the protection network, plays an essential role in guaranteeing rights of women who need to break this cycle of abuse, especially with effective spread of information, including the essential procedure and humanized care. The interviews confirm what scientific studies already warn about the fact that domestic violence can harm cognitive and emotional development of children, negatively affecting their self-esteem, social and affective skills. The interviews also reveal that religious leaders often devalue, condemn and reaffirm women's submissive position in society, based on justifications in biblical scriptures, to reinforce obedience, passivity and submission; This corroborates the maintenance of violence suffered. Finally, it became clear that, although the majority of christian women present a paradoxical discourse that religion helped them to escape the cycle of violence and, consequently, say that their faith in God freed them from violence, an intimate and subjective feeling, beyond the intervention of the religious institution, the participants broke with alienating and limiting indoctrinations by seeking support from the protection network, especially CRAM. Regarding criticism of monitoring in the protection network, one of the interviewees warned us about the fragility of the Emergency Protective Procedure (M.P.U.) and the lack of adequate resources in women's shelters, such as daycare centers and activities for children. This research can serve as a basis for future research and creation of public policies.

The present work aims to analyze how inequalities of race, gender and class impact the need for institutional care for black children and adolescents. The institutional reception of black children is certainly not something recent, it had its birth in colonial Brazil and since then it clearly demarcates the issue of race, gender and class, insofar as they are, historically, children of black and poor women who are removed from the their homes. The onslaught in the process of destitution of the humanity of black women has been going on since the slavery era and is operationalized by numerous mechanisms, and here we consider that the removal of their children is another one of them. The research was developed from the bibliographic review on racial relations in Brazil, on the institutional reception of children and adolescents, highlighting the social public policies accessed - or not - by black women and in the light of Sheila's life trajectory, participant of this study. Thus, life history was chosen as a data collection technique, for conceiving it as the most adequate to the research purposes and to the epistemological proposal that crosses all its development. To do so, we take as a starting point the history of struggles and resistance of black women in favor of their freedom and that of theirs, as well as the struggle for their right to motherhood. We continue to historicize the institutional reception of black children and adolescents, hoping to identify which issues from the past still persist and reflect in the present in the lives of black children and adolescents, as well as their families. Finally, in the last chapter, we present the life story of the participant of this study, in order to make her story visible as a black woman who had children in institutional care in the city of Salvador/BA and experienced all the "bad luck" of being born. woman, black and poor. Data analysis was performed using the technique of Discourse Analysis (AD), from the perspective of the sociology of absences and emergencies by Boaventura Santos (2010). As a result of the research, we found that the historical condition of subordination in which black Brazilian women were placed, reflects on their living conditions, as in the case of Sheila, and is intrinsically linked to the removal of their children from their coexistence today, as well as it was once. We also identified that black women figure in the worst rates of access to public policies - health, education, employment and income, housing, basic sanitation - due to racism and sexism that perversely operate on their lives, which directly affects their protective capacity. in relation to their children. On the other hand, we also find records of the historical and constant struggle of black women for freedom and better living conditions, as evidenced by the life story of the research participant.

The current study aims to analyze the presence of the categories race and gender in the academic productions of the Brazilian Social Service concerning the prison system between 2000 and 2019, in addition to elaborating a collaborative autoethnographic study with a young black woman from her experience with the prison system. In the last 20 years the number of incarcerated black women has increased exponentially throughout the Brazilian territory, however it is perceived the little production of Social Service facing this expression of the social issue and its determinants as it was evidenced during the research. To carry out the research, we used the triangulation method for allowing the application of multimethods: bibliographical, quantitative, qualitative, and collaborative autoenographic studies, thus offering a greater possibility of understanding the complex reality under study. In this way, the first chapter presents, from the bibliographical review, elements that contribute to understanding the process of struggle and (re) existence of black women during the slavery period and after the abolition, including their decisive participation in the insurgencies for the end of slavery. The second chapter presents the state of the art of Social Work academic productions published in journals of the area available online between the years 2000 - 2019 and dissertations and theses available on the Sucupira/ CAPES platform between 2014-2019, and the third chapter presents a collaborative autoethnographic study with a young black woman who went through the prison system. As results, we identified the consequences of the marginalization of the racial issue since the professional training of social workers. The incipient scientific production of Social Work about the prison system and the scarce approach of the categories race and gender in the research works referring to the prison system in the last twenty years. The collaborative autoethnography with a young black woman who lived the experience of the prison system revealed the continuity of the processes of struggle and (re) existence as a socio-historical reflection of a capitalist, racist, patriarchal, cisheteronormative society.

Workers' health, from a critical theoretical perspective of understanding work in capitalist society, is understood as a phenomenon resulting from the relationship between the health of individuals who work and the conditions in which this work is carried out. In this sense, this relationship is above all social, since within the framework of society governed by the capitalist mode of production, working conditions are determined by the socio-historical specificities of this material and social mode of production. As working conditions participate in a process of social determination of workers' health, reflection on the health of public service workers, in the various institutions of direct and indirect administration of the state apparatus, is conditioned to the analysis of the repercussions of the current standard of production of the capitalist way of producing on the administrative machine of the State. This theoretical perspective guides the research object of this dissertation, limited to the investigation on how the relations between work and the health of workers in the direct and indirect administration of services that make up the structure of the state machine in Brazil are addressed/presented in scientific productions. To achieve this research objective, we opted for a Bibliographic Review Research with a methodological strategy of Integrative Review in the journals indexed in the databases: Lilacs and PubMed, in the time interval between 2010 and 2020. The research findings pointed to evidence on working conditions correlated with the health-care-illness processes of public service workers. With special emphasis on the prevalence of illness among public service workers in the field of mental health, the precariousness of working conditions due to productive restructuring and the tendency to adapt working conditions to the logic of flexibility, the Administrative Reform of the Brazilian State as an instrument which makes it possible to determine the logic of flexibility on work in the public service, co-opting the structure and power of the State for the interests of capitalism.

This study aims to analyze, in its quantitative and qualitative aspects, the academic-scientific elaborations on the work of social workers in the area of Mental Health, in the production of the Brazilian Social Service between the years 2010 and 2021; in the Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations and in the academic-scientific journals of Social Work. We sought to map the adopted conceptions about mental health, systematize the main manifestations of the social issue presented in this field, as well as the professional activities performed by the social worker, and the current challenges for the profession. The theoretical-methodological perspective of Marilda Iamamoto was adopted in this work to guide the central axis of the object of analysis: the work of the social worker. This work was divided into four chapters. The first chapter proposed to reconstruct the history of Mental Health in Brazil, in order to glimpse how care in Mental Health has undergone transformations over the years, by the State, from the colonial phase to the present day. The current setbacks faced in the field of Mental Health in the country were analyzed, constituting a “counter-reform” to the achievements arising from the Psychiatric Reform process. In the second chapter, the proposed objective was to investigate the genesis of Social Work in the country, as well as the social meaning of the profession in Brazilian capitalist society. Subsequently, in the third chapter, it was necessary to situate the insertion of Social Work in the field of Mental Health, to know the processes that social workers are involved in, as well as to find out about the living conditions of users of the Mental Health Policy in Brazil. The fourth chapter referred to the analysis and problematization of data collection. The methodological path was through a bibliographic survey and documental research. The analysis method for the study is the critical-dialectical one, supported by the quantitative-qualitative approach. The results show that the progress of a social policy is not linear, thus passing through nuances, sometimes of advances or of dismantling, therefore the achievements achieved through the Psychiatric Reform must be preserved, recognizing that the continuation or stagnation of these principles are objects of disputes of interests in different corporate projects. With regard to Social Work in Mental Health, it is concluded that the Psychiatric Reform Movement and the Social Work Recognition Movement occurred in close contexts and brought numerous advances to both sectors. Regarding the work of social workers in Mental Health, the literature expresses that it began with psychologizing characteristics, hierarchized among professions inherent to “psi” knowledge, and its legitimacy and recognition as interdisciplinary technical knowledge is gradually being conquered. There are countless challenges for the profession in this field, passing through the scenario of globalization and productive restructuring, to the institutional limits experienced daily. It is concluded that this is an insufficiently discussed topic and its debate is necessary not only for the scientific collection of Social Work, but also for thinking about Network work in an articulated and decentralized way, valuing the specific potential of each knowledge.