Professional Profiles and Intervention Strategies in Social Work

Abstract

The article analyzes the relation between professional profile and intervention strategies in public institutions, in order to reveal the coexistence of conflicting practices within the professional collective. In this sense, the heterogeneous nature of the professional group is understood and, likewise, the political dimension crossing the professional practice is recognized. Now, the project of society and profession that it adheres to, linked to the objective and subjective conditions in which professional practice is developed, will set the basis for configuring the various professional profiles. Therefore, based on the testimony of the social workers and social service users interviewed, the purpose is to reconstruct the ways in which these ontologically opposed profiles are presented on the professional practice, as this reveals the continuity of practices at the service of the dominant classes and the recognition of an industry that is rejecting the professional conservatism.