A constituição da ética profissional do serviço social brasileiro e português: os códigos em evidência

Abstract

The present paper proposes to carry out a study on the constitution of professional ethics of Brazilian and Portuguese Social Work, aiming to analyze the composition of the Codes of Ethics of social workers in these countries, in order to understand the elaboration of these profession guiding documents. Analyzing the constitution of professional ethics in Social Work implies recovering the socio-historical processes that determined the basis of the profession and the apprehension of social issues in the capitalist context, while considering its historical particularities. In this sense, as a theoretical and methodological framework, Marx's dialectical-critical method is applied, within which research and study techniques were utilized, as well as Bardin's (2011) content analysis, a qualitative bibliographic review on theoretical studies that address the theme of Social Work and professional ethics. A total of 26 theoretical studies on Social Work published in Brazil and Portugal were analyzed. The current paper questions how the ethical-political orientations are influencing professional work and how these documents can approximate or distance the understanding of the work object and professional ethics. It is understood that the current social situation and its transformations in both countries impose, even with their particularities, the critical apprehension of social relations, which are transformed into new demands for Social Work, making discussion and apprehension of the values and ethical principles of the profession essential