Tecnología Emocional y Trabajo social

Overview & Synopsis

The main characteristic of the social workers is that we are professionals in help relationships, focused on the work we do with people, where jointly planning the intervention, is our main work tool. We pursue the objective in achieving the self -help of our users/as/as customers, as change facilitators, giving them the necessary potential so that, with the use of their own abilities and skills, they obtain the best results to the situations/problems/problems they raise us. With this, we enhance the understanding of technology and society, with new citizen strategies oriented to participation, promotion of well -being and open access to public information.Development of a gradual process of reflection to identify emotional technology as a generator of various processes of social and cultural change. New technologies have transformed and reoriented our way of relating, sometimes expanding the range of contacts with active subjects in the networks with which we had a previous link;and, on other occasions, opening us to the discovery of knowing new spaces and people.This leads us to rethinking interaction, between beings and emotional technology, in relation to new social problems such as loneliness between the group of older people and/or among the people affected with disabilities that hinder them or prevent them from maintaining aindependent life. And, in these scenarios, it is where emotional technology helps improve people's quality of life. We can start thinking about the experience in the use of emotional technology as technological communities, using technical means to increase participation.Create to share. Throughout this report, we will try to identify the applications of emotional technology to social work, as well as, define the contributions of social work to emotional technology, exposing this new initiative promoted by the Integra Foundation corresponding to a new line of action thatThe Government of the Region of Murcia starts.