Childhood-adolescent care practices: putting the body in turbulent contexts

Abstract

The institutional scenario of the Secretariat for Children, Adolescence and Family (SeNAF) is going through a process of transition towards the paradigm of Protection of the Rights of children and adolescents. The dynamics of a transitional process, added to the management of politics from a neoliberal model, generates adverse organizational-institutional conditions for care practices. The article gives an account of the institutional framework of care in the field of childhood and adolescence, analyzing the working conditions in which the processes of social intervention occur in this scenario, also the implications of these conditions for intervention and professional autonomy. Likewise, the study highlights the figure of caregivers in this plot, their perceptions, experiences, strategies and ways of "putting the body" to care for others. Finally, some proposals are outlined to think of care as a plural gesture based on comprehensive care policies. To pay for the analysis and reflection on the subject, the results of the research process, developed by researchers from the National University of Córdoba, Faculty of Social Sciences, will be retaken, expanding said contributions with inputs from the research path itself within the framework of the graduate thesis of the author.