NASCIMENTO, Iasmin Libalde    MORAES, Thiago Drumond. Performance of women psychologists in social assistance: relationships between professional gender and health. []. , 15, 2, pp.1-23. ISSN 1646-5237.  https://doi.org/10.4000/laboreal.15090.

Considering that in the clinic of activity theory the presence of the professional gender and its constant updating by the work collective is the key to the production of occupational health, this study aimed at analyzing the gender of the psychologists who work in social work reference centers of a Brazilian municipality and its relationship with these professionals' health-illness process. Meetings were conducted with five psychologists who debated on their activity from the use of photos. Discourse analysis was used to analyze the data. The conditions of work and the absence of a professional collective were the basis for the illness reported. However, in the meetings it was possible to intensify the sharing of knowledge, strengthening the feeling of collective belonging, and affecting in the reinterpretation of working conditions. It is suggested that collective debates about the work activity can contribute as a protective factor to the sickness of workers.

: psychology; social services; social action.

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