Psychology in Social Assistance and the Acting through Outsourced Contracts

Abstract

This study aims to present that reverberations were identified by Psychology professionals who worked in the services of the Unified Social Assistance System between 2013 to 2017, in a city in the interior of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. For this, 12 professionals participated in the research, being the data obtained from interviews and analyzed based on Content Analysis. The results indicated an accumulation and diversion of duties, the execution of other activities besides those that appeared in their contracts, income supplementation with a second job, and mainly the weakening of both the safety and the health of the worker in the service, generating illness in the professionals.

Keywords

• work
• social assistance
• outsourcing
• psychology