Vol. 4 No. 6 (2025): Redes Temáticas de Investigación en Trabajo Social

The Journal ACANITS Thematic Networks in Social Work is a space for disciplinary reflection, in this issue a series of documents are presented that raise theoretical-methodological discussions and present results of research work. In this sense, this issue discusses the analysis of the concept of community, although this perspective or disciplinary method is widely developed in Latin America, the authors analyze the category of community as an analytical category that has been constructed and re-used by various disciplines and professions of the social and human sciences.

The importance of social assistance as a social work practice is also discussed, in the sense of the need to safeguard the integrity of people in times of vulnerability, exclusion and crisis. In this way, the authors carry out a comparative analysis in two regional contexts to point out how social assistance emerges as a set of rights that the State must guarantee to improve the levels of welfare of the population.

The Journal ACANITS Redes Temáticas en Trabajo Social, has also generated spaces for undergraduate and graduate students to participate, in this issue there is a paper that addresses the reconfiguration of the intervention process in the area of Social Work in the first line of care of Covid-19 in a General Hospital in Sinaloa, the results suggest that after a health crisis new areas of research and disciplinary intervention arise. This paper proposes a diagnosis of marginalized children in the north of Mexico. The material conditions of social and economic inequality may limit the capabilities of those who have fewer resources; however, a positive educational and family environment contributes to the balanced development of infants.

The last paper presents a reflection on the methodological application at the individual and family levels in the process of family breakdown and the right to food. This document critically points out the knowledge, processes, techniques and instruments articulated in professional practices in institutions of procurement and administration of justice. This issue undoubtedly meets the specifications of the journal by showing traditional, potential and emerging topics of social work in areas such as: family, education, health, justice and the disciplinary space itself.