Problematizando as noções de vulnerabilidade e risco social no cotidiano do SUAS

Abstract

This essay, composed from the author's reflections, aims to discuss the notions of vulnerability and social risk that integrate documents of the SUAS [Sistema Unificado de Assistência Social (Brazilian Unified Social Assistance System)], focusing on the effects that emerge from the use of such notions in the professionals' work routine, in their interventions with families. In this context, it discusses the risks present in these connections, which may make professionals vulnerable, and how the unawareness of them may impair the ability of the teams as well as the protagonism and autonomy of families. The risks are named as follows: risk of psychologization, risk of disqualification, risk of overloaded women and risk of resonance of vulnerabilities. We conclude that the biggest risk is the risk of life abuse, which is supported by actions that may cover moral practices and result in relations of tutelage and subjection, preventing relations of care that are established in the intersection, in the encounter between models and forces that allow the consolidation of the SUAS in a powerful way.