SOUSA, A. B.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/0959918910142345; SOUSA, Antônia Bezerra de.
Resumen:
The main objective of this work is to reflect on the mental illness of social workers during
the confrontation of the Covid-19 pandemic and its possible relationships with working
conditions. To carry it out, we used the dialectical materialist method, associated with
bibliographical research as a way to support our analyzes and reflections. We start from
work as the foundation of the social being, mediated by the operative determinations in
the sociability of capital, where it was observed that the demand for productivity, working
conditions, precarious wages and contracts, associated with the pressure exerted by the
pandemic, made possible situations of illness / exhaustion to professionals. In this sense,
we will analyze work as the founder of the social being until we reach the present day,
the main transformations that have taken place in the world of work in recent years with
the productive restructuring will be traced, how much these changes have affected the
mental health of workers and how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected the professional
daily life and mental health of social workers. Seeking the possible relationships between
mental illness and precarious working conditions that were accentuated in this pandemic
period, this research will start from studies carried out by several authors on this subject
in order to achieve the objectives outlined, since it aims to analyze the working conditions
of these professionals, understand how they have been facing this scenario and how this
has permeated their physical and mental health. The results obtained through this study
showed how much these transformations in the world of work affect the health of workers
and how much this has intensified with the Covid-19 pandemic.
