Práticas de cuidado em contexto de Acolhimento Institucional: perspectivas de vínculo e afeto

This article aims to analyze the bonds and the affections as a power to transform the practices in children shelters, understanding care as an ethical-political dimension. In a view of endorsse the formative role of affections in the processes of subjectivation of sheltered and workers, the importance of developing Social Assistance Policies to overcome technicality as a strategy to break the narratives of “blaming” that reiterate and reaffirm the conditions of vulnerability, violence and poverty experienced. Aligned with the Spinozian thought, this article comprehends a methodological path of a qualitative research in psychology, build through internship experiences in a children shelter in Vitoria-ES, BR. Thus, this article appeal to the value of establish and improve the positive bonds and affections in the professional practices in sheltering services, as well as the strengthening of Social Assistance Policies in a critical and involved attitude permeated by the defense of social rights.