Person-Environment Practice: Social Ecology of Interpersonal Helping

by Kemp,Susan

• ISBN13: 9780202361031
• ISBN10: 0202361039
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1997-10-14
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This volume addresses a core but long-neglected dimension in social work and human services practice: accurate environmental assessment and strategic environmental intervention. Despite the centrality of person-environment” as a key construct in direct practice, the domain of environmental assessment/intervention has received relatively little systematic attention in the practice literature. For a variety of reasons, the core focus of direct practice assessment and change strategies has centered more on person” than environment.” This book seeks to redress that imbalance.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Terry Bamford
Introduction	xi
An Introduction to Person-Environment Practice	1	(20)
Definition of Person-Environment Practice	2	(1)
The Building Blocks of Person-Environment Practice	3	(6)
Some Key Historical Ideas That Influence Person-Environment Practice	9	(1)
Some Key Features of Person-Environment Practice	10	(5)
P.E.P. and Related Practice Approaches	15	(1)
Challenges to Person-Environment Practice	16	(2)
Concluding Remarks	18	(3)
The Idea of Environment in Social Work Practice	21	(30)
Environmental Intervention in Historical Perspective	22	(18)
Bridging Person and Environment: Ecological and Systems Theory	40	(5)
Conclusions	45	(6)
Knowledge Foundations: Rethinking Environment for Social Work Practice	51	(38)
Social Work Perspectives	52	(12)
Critical and Constructivist Views of Environment	64	(6)
Ecological Systems Theory	70	(3)
Social and Physical Environments	73	(6)
Resilience, Protective Factors, and Environmental Risk	79	(5)
Definitions	84	(5)
Environmental Assessment	89	(42)
Assessment in Social Work	90	(1)
Assessment in Person-Environment Practice (P.E.P.)	91	(3)
Sources of Data for Environmental Assessment	94	(2)
Frameworks for Environmental Assessment	96	(11)
Mapping Social Network Resources: The Social Network Map	107	(10)
Guidelines for Social Network/Support Assessments	117	(2)
Guidelines for Social Network/Support Goal-Setting	119	(2)
Summary	121	(2)
Environmental Assessment: Tools and Methods	123	(5)
Case Vignettes	128	(3)
Environmental Interventions	131	(44)
Intervention in Social Work Practice	132	(2)
Environmental Intervention in Social Work Practice	134	(2)
Environmental Intervention in Person-Environment Practice	136	(1)
The Process of Environmental Change	137	(2)
Social Network Interventions	139	(19)
General Considerations for Implementing Environmental Interventions	158	(8)
Summary: Ways to be Environmentally Oriented	166	(9)
The Diversity of Environmental Experience	175	(24)
Race, Class, and Environment	176	(4)
Women and Environment	180	(3)
Sexuality and Space	183	(3)
The Contexts of Disability	186	(3)
Environments at the Beginning and End of Life	189	(7)
Conclusion	196	(3)
Current Issues and Future Challenges for Person-Environment Practice	199	(16)
The Challenge of Knowledge Development	199	(5)
The Challenge of Knowledge Dissemination	204	(3)
Professional, Organizational, and Political Challenges for Person-Environment Practice	207	(4)
A Postscript on Direct Practice	211	(4)
References	215	(33)
Author Index	248	(9)
Subject Index	257