Os desafios e perspectivas da Terapia Ocupacional no campo social: uma revisão bibliográfica

Abstract

This research aims to describe the National Social Assistance Policy - NSAP and Occupational Therapy in the Social Field through a bibliographic review of laws, articles, theses, books and Resolutions, published in the main digital databases available, published nationally. NSAP was essential for the creation of the Single Social Assistance System - SSAS, through which it is a system that organizes the public policies of social assistance in Brazil, organizing its action in different levels of social protection. Occupational Therapy as a practice of action can be included in the basic social assistance team based on an intervention based on its object of study: occupational science, which aims to intervene in the social protection of the subjects in a condition of social vulnerability. The objective of the research was to describe the implementation of the National Policy of Social Assistance and the relation of Occupational Therapy in the Social Field. We seek to present links that provide an understanding of the concepts, organizational and operational guidelines of the National Social Assistance Policy, in which its connections with Occupational Therapy, aiming at elucidating its ethical commitments, foundations and methodologies in the Social Field. A number of important challenges have been identified throughout the research, such as the need to deepen knowledge about the processes of action in the social field and the qualification in this field. It is concluded that Occupational Therapy Professionals can contribute significantly to the implementation of the Single Social Assistance System, through their occupational therapeutical interventions.