Trabalho e saúde mental: um estudo bibliográfico sobre a saúde das/os Assistentes Sociais durante a emergência sanitária de COVID-19.

Abstract

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.