Hosting the Emergency: : Intervention in the Mental Health Emergency Room

This paper analyzes the intervention of social work in the mental health emergency ward of a General Acute Care Hospital located in the southern area of in the City of Buenos Aires, within a context of social, economic, and health crisis marked by the defunding of the healthcare system and the preca...

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Autor principal: Coloca, Dulce María
Formato: Artículo revista
Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Facultad de Ciencia Política y Relaciones Internacionales. Escuela de Trabajo Social 2026
Materias:
Guardia
Salud mental
Trabajo social
Emergency
Mental health
Social Work
Acceso en línea:https://catedraparalela.unr.edu.ar/index.php/revista/article/view/480
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spelling I15-R222-article-4802026-03-30T13:53:31Z Hosting the Emergency: : Intervention in the Mental Health Emergency Room Alojar la urgencia:: intervención en la guardia de salud mental Coloca, Dulce María Guardia Salud mental Trabajo social Emergency Mental health Social Work This paper analyzes the intervention of social work in the mental health emergency ward of a General Acute Care Hospital located in the southern area of in the City of Buenos Aires, within a context of social, economic, and health crisis marked by the defunding of the healthcare system and the precarization of life. Based on an experience in the ward, the device is described as a space of suffering, traversed by immediacy and scarcity of resources. At the same time, it emerges as a setting for interdisciplinary construction framed by rights. The analysis draws on the contributions of Butler (precarity), Tronto (ethics of care), and Stolkiner (hospitality), highlighting professional practice as an ethical-political act that sustains life in the face of logics of commodification and fragmentation. It concludes that, even in the urgency, Social Work can enable processes of subjectivation, symbolic restitution, reorganization of care, and network-building, reaffirming its place in the field of mental health from a perspective of rights and social justice. El presente trabajo analiza la intervención del trabajo social en la guardia de salud mental en un Hospital General de Agudos ubicado en zona sur de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, en un contexto de crisis social, económica y sanitaria marcado por la desfinanciación del sistema de salud y la precarización de la vida. A partir de una experiencia en la guardia, se describe el dispositivo como un espacio del padecimiento, atravesado por la inmediatez y la escasez de recursos. Al mismo tiempo, se presenta como escenario de construcción interdisciplinaria en clave de derechos. El análisis se apoya en los aportes de Butler (precariedad), Tronto (ética del cuidado) y Stolkiner (hospitalidad), destacando la práctica profesional como un acto ético-político que sostiene la vida frente a lógicas de mercantilización y fragmentación. Se concluye que, incluso en la urgencia, el trabajo social puede habilitar procesos de subjetivación, restitución simbólica y reorganización del cuidado, construcción de redes y reafirmando su lugar en el campo de la salud mental desde una perspectiva de derechos y justicia social. Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Facultad de Ciencia Política y Relaciones Internacionales. Escuela de Trabajo Social 2026-03-28 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Artículo revisado por pares application/pdf https://catedraparalela.unr.edu.ar/index.php/revista/article/view/480 10.35305/cp.vi28.480 Cátedra Paralela; Núm. 28 (2026); 19-33 2683-9393 1669-8843 spa https://catedraparalela.unr.edu.ar/index.php/revista/article/view/480/375
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topic Guardia
Salud mental
Trabajo social
Emergency
Mental health
Social Work
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Salud mental
Trabajo social
Emergency
Mental health
Social Work
Coloca, Dulce María
Hosting the Emergency: : Intervention in the Mental Health Emergency Room
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Salud mental
Trabajo social
Emergency
Mental health
Social Work
author Coloca, Dulce María
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title Hosting the Emergency: : Intervention in the Mental Health Emergency Room
title_short Hosting the Emergency: : Intervention in the Mental Health Emergency Room
title_full Hosting the Emergency: : Intervention in the Mental Health Emergency Room
title_fullStr Hosting the Emergency: : Intervention in the Mental Health Emergency Room
title_full_unstemmed Hosting the Emergency: : Intervention in the Mental Health Emergency Room
title_sort hosting the emergency: : intervention in the mental health emergency room
description This paper analyzes the intervention of social work in the mental health emergency ward of a General Acute Care Hospital located in the southern area of in the City of Buenos Aires, within a context of social, economic, and health crisis marked by the defunding of the healthcare system and the precarization of life. Based on an experience in the ward, the device is described as a space of suffering, traversed by immediacy and scarcity of resources. At the same time, it emerges as a setting for interdisciplinary construction framed by rights. The analysis draws on the contributions of Butler (precarity), Tronto (ethics of care), and Stolkiner (hospitality), highlighting professional practice as an ethical-political act that sustains life in the face of logics of commodification and fragmentation. It concludes that, even in the urgency, Social Work can enable processes of subjectivation, symbolic restitution, reorganization of care, and network-building, reaffirming its place in the field of mental health from a perspective of rights and social justice.
publisher Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Facultad de Ciencia Política y Relaciones Internacionales. Escuela de Trabajo Social
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