Work training in social healthcare work: sharing experiences

Abstract

Contact with professional practice during undergraduate education is a key stage of the academic training of social workers. During the work training experience theory is combined with practice and the student becomes acquainted with the socio-occupational spaces, the actions’ target publics, the possible means of action and challenges presented by the social policies, and the institutional powers. For students this is a moment of profound knowledge gain concerning the profession – the exercises performed during work training are directly related to expected professional standards, and in that respect can prove to be either adequate or not. This paper reflects on this particular stage of the social work training, describing the themes associated with the guidelines (Popular Health Education and Social Control and Institutionalized Practices) of the supervised work training program of the Department of Social Work of the Federal University of Mato Grosso.