SUPERVISION OF INTERNSHIP IN SOCIAL WORK IN THE AREA OF PUBLIC POLICY MANAGEMENT

AN EXPERIENCE IN CONSTRUCTION

Abstract

This article aims to showcase aspects that go through the academic supervision process in Social Work, as for the management of health policy as a socio-occupational space for the insertion of Social Workers. Considering that Social Workers start to develop actions beyond the terminal execution of social policies, we raise the debate about the importance of the principles of the Ethical-Political Project of the category as a north of operation for Social Workers, but also in regards to the possibilities of spreading these principles while targeting public policies that address the "social issue". In this area, the Social Worker can contribute to the tension in favor of the subordinate class, directing social policy to attend to the real interests of the population using the services and minimizing the perverse impacts of the social production mode, within the scope of policy management, an area with little discussion and used as an internship field. The socio-occupational space that will be analyzed is related to the management of the Primary Health Care policy, as the closest expression of health policy to the population. In this way, there are countless challenges for undergraduate students in this space because it is not configured as one for direct service to users, but it needs to be apprehended through a movement to suspend reality in order to become a more significant field for professional performance.