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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Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Facultad de Ciencia Política y Relaciones Internacionales. Escuela de Trabajo Social
2026
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| Acceso en línea: | https://catedraparalela.unr.edu.ar/index.php/revista/article/view/480 |
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| Sumario: | 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. |
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