Social work, fields and professional identities
Start and End of Project
July 2016 to July de 2019
Principal Investigator
Professor Maria Irene Carvalho
Research Team
| Researcher | Institucional Affiliation |
| Maria Irene Carvalho |
CAPP/ISCSP |
| Carla Cristina Pinto | CAPP/ISCSP |
| Ana Esgaio |
ISCSP |
| Ana Paula Garcia |
ISCSP |
| Cristina Duarte |
ISCSP |
| Helena Teles |
ISCSP |
| Jorge Lopes | ISCSP |
| Otília Morgado | ISCSP |
| Patrícia Campaniço | ISCSP |
Consultants
| Consultant | Institucional Affiliation |
| Josiani Julião |
Universidade Estadual de São Paulo/França |
Partners
| Associação de Profissionais de Serviço Social |
| Sindicato dos Profissionais de Serviço Social |
| União das IPSS |
| Confederação Nacional das Instituições de Solidariedade Social |
| União das Misericórdias Portuguesas |
| Associação Nacional dos Municípios Portugueses |
Summary
The project aims for the understanding of the configuration of the Social Work profession in Portugal, from a critical perspective. It considers current socioeconomic and political challenges and their impact on the configuration, implementation and mediation of social policies, while at the same time highlighting the contribution of social work for the promotion of welfare and social justice.
Objetives
The project aims provide context to processes of social change and social policy, and understand how they influence social intervention and reshape the profession of social work, map the areas of intervention of social workers in key sectors of central and local administration, and in profit and non-profit civil organizations, locate the professional practice within the context of social policies and provide a characterization of the action of social workers, taking into account the legal framework, and the worker's functions, methods, techniques, principles and values and define intervention models, considering the theoretical, methodological, instrumental, ethical and political standards in Social Work.