Adoção e serviço social: atuação do/a assistente social nos processos de adoção de crianças e adolescentes

Abstract

This Course Completion Work aims to understand the performance of the Social Worker in multidisciplinary work in the adoption processes in the Childhood and Youth Courts, as well as the relevance of their investigative posture and critical capacity to analyze the reality, characteristics of the profession, acting in accordance with the guidelines of the Code of Ethics for Social Work and the Statute of Children and Adolescents (ECA), articulating the theoretical-methodological, ethical-political and technical-operative dimensions in the preparation of social opinions that will serve as subsidy for the judicial decision of the destiny of children and adolescents in the perspective of access, guarantee and expansion of their rights. In addition, with the aim of broadening the debate, we discuss the insertion of Social Work in the Judiciary, the historical context surrounding adoption, among other topics relevant to understanding the central theme of this study.