Visibilizando la práctica del trabajador social forense en el espacio de encuentros familiares en el marco del Poder Judicial uruguayo una aproximación a un tipo “especial” de pericia

The present article intends to raise some reflections about a field of socio - occupational insertion of the profession, which constitutes a relatively young experience in our country. In this sense, we intend to give visibility to a specific professional practice within the expert function in the legal field: the expert practice developed in the context of family meetings in the Department of Social Assistance located in the Technical Forensic Institute within the Uruguayan Judicial Branch. We will focus on the characteristics of the expert process in this context, process that we consider differs, in certain aspects, from the expert work that is usually demanded to social workers within the judicial institution. We will develop the different phases of it: first contact with the family conflictive situation through the reading of the file, diagnostic approach and construction of hypotheses that orient and reorient the expert process, through the use of interview and observation techniques and finally the preparation of the expert report based theoretically and methodologically. We will also address the ethical implications of this process.