El rol del trabajador social: consideraciones psicosociales para la innovación de rol. The social worker’s role: Psycho-social consideration for an innovation of the role

Abstract

The article here presented has as objective do a reflection on certain elements of the role of the social worker that are necessary to develop and to apply in the professional practice, in correspondence with the expectation; of the profession and favored by the social and technological changes of what has been given in called society of the knowledge on of the information. In the first part an approximation is done to the state of the debate concerning three basic problems of the professional identity of the social work, as the controversial object of the profession, his supposed scientific or technological character and the polarization of the intervention between the individual level and the level structural-social. In the second part an empirical approximation is realized so the performance of the professional role on the base of different studies realized and whose results reveal the scanty development of the activities you will inter discipline, of coordination and inter-professional and interinstitucional cooperation realized by the social workers. Finaly, there propose a series of innovative guidelines On the profession that they happen for the production of strategies of action and intervention that they emphasize the cooperation and the coordination as substantive and central elements that reinforcerment the efficiency of the role of the social worker ant they contribute to is differentiation of identity opposite to other related professions