Abstract
Objective: Discuss, through a narrative review of the scientific literature, the role of the Social Worker in Mental Health. Bibliographic review: From the Psychiatric Reform in 1978, psychiatric hospitals and asylums are gradually replaced by open and community psychosocial services, with a view to meeting the individual needs of users in psychological distress using them. humanized approach. As the violation of social rights is a great challenge to the Social Worker demanded by Mental Health, it is necessary to analyze his professional practice in this work space, his role in acting, to understand how they are welcomed in the health field, in addition to placing the user population as subjects of rights, emphasizing the importance of qualified listening with the social service. Final Considerations: The expressions of the Social Question in Mental Health are verified from the social exclusion of users in psychological distress through the deprivation of their social life, in the lack of insertion in the intersectoral networks, in addition to the stigmatization they face daily, causing harm to them social and emotional.