PERFORMANCE OF THE SOCIAL WORKER BEFORE PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: INTEGRATIVE REVIEW

Abstract

Disability is not a characteristic of poverty, but it is influenced by it, poverty and social marginalization can affect people with disabilities more harshly, a reality that justifies a differentiated look and treatment by society, configuring itself as a group that should be prioritized by the public authorities. Thus, the present study aimed to synthesize the social worker's performance in the face of people with disabilities. This is a bibliographic review, of the integrative review type. The construction of the scope of the research was based on the search in scientific journals where descriptors in Science and Health (DeCS) and Medical Subject Headings (MESH) were consulted, associated with the Boolean operator 'AND': (Social Worker) AND (Knowledge, attitudes and practices) AND (disabled person). Data were collected in November 2022. A total of 268 were identified, after the exclusion criteria were applied, 8 studies were included for qualitative analysis. As a result, social worker within these spaces, part of the understanding of social determinants that interfere in the health-disease process beyond the conception of psychopathological approaches and at the same time creates the commitment to a pedagogical practice of mobilization and social control of PCD subjects. Since this work is important, future research is needed to put on the agenda studies related to the performance of the social worker in front of people with disabilities.