Diez propuestas para cuidarse y cuidar en las profesiones sociales. Hacia la construcción de una cultura del cuidado en los profesionales

Professionals are the most valuable resource of the social service system and they must take care of themselves to be able to care for others. Every day professionals have to deal with stories of overcoming obstacles, but also with stories of pain and frustration, which make them question themselves. The article aims to generate awareness about the effects on professionals working with psycho-social risk situations and promote attention to these issues and pro-activeness rather than settling in the discomfort zone. If this is not done, this discomfort is transferred to the work teams and, finally, to the people they have to help. To this end, ten theoretical-practical proposals are presented: interdependence, collective intelligence, dual care, address subjectivity, acquire a molecular perspective of situations, trust, return to words, creativity and care, research to care for others and care for oneself, and finally social supervision as a way to help others and oneself. These reflections are the results of a systematic practice and of a study done during the supervision of ten teams and sixty professionals in the psychosocial field. We will contribute to generate ideas, strategies and set aside resources to propose a care culture in global sense: towards the people we care for, towards teammates and towards oneself.