Role of Social Worker in the technical unit of adoptions of the Ministry of Economic and Social Inclusion

Abstract

Adoption in Ecuador is a process that is executed in a prolonged manner, in which a series of technical aspects are analyzed before its execution, in which professionals intervene who have the responsibility to act in a technical manner; before, during and after the action is carried out, therefore, the objective of this research was to identify the actions of the Social Worker in the technical unit of adoptions of the Ministry of Economic and Social Inclusion. A descriptive methodology was used, with a qualitative approach; the analytical and bibliographic method was used, consecutively the semi-structured interview technique was applied, which was conducted to the three professionals of the psychological-legal and social areas of the adoption unit of the city of Portoviejo, where the instrument was the questionnaire of questions. The population used was three professionals of the integrated technical unit of adoptions, the social worker, the psychologist and the lawyer of the legal area. Among the results obtained was that in the UTA (Adoption Technical Unit) the social worker acts in three stages: before, during and after the adoption; within this area she provides orientation, training workshops and psychosocial support in order to strengthen the family dynamics and seek the welfare of the adopted children and adolescents.The application of methodological processes by the social worker allows her to identify important factors of a family in the adoption process of a minor.