Development and Reconceptualization. Contrasting positions, advances towards a new reality?

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to bring the reader information about the Social Work that dominated the Developmentalist phase of Argentina and during the movement for Reconceptualization in order to see the connection between both periods and evaluate if it is possible to say that they were characterized by counter positions or by a phase of questioning that was necessary for a deep change. The paper also seeks to demystify the idea of the developmentalist social worker in contrast with the reconceputalized social worker as if there was a duel between good and evil since it was among the developmentalist social workers that questioning and criticism began to give way to the Reconceputalization, a movement which is very important within our professional collective.