Full Description
Environmental Justice as Social Work Practice places the natural environment as central to practice. Utilizing the Phases of Practice and micro to macro levels of practice, the book integrates neatly into a college semester course. Chapters cover important components of social work such as theory, ethics, conceptual foundations as well as distinct chapters on micro, mezzo, and macro practice. Each chapter expands the discipline's commitment to and appliedefforts in the environmental movement while recognizing the unique contributions social work has to offer to ameliorate environmental inequities. Chapters include real-world stories from environmental social work practitioners, case studies, and boxed sections highlighting organizations and people who bridgethe human and natural justice divide. Each chapter concludes with learning activities and critical thinking questions providing learning activities that map easily to a course syllabus. A matrix identifying the placement of educational competencies from the Council on Social Work Education is included. The textbook provides a framework for social work educators to bravely and competently teach environmental social work as a stand-alone college course or to incorporate into a traditionalpractice course.
Contents
PrefaceCouncil on Social Work Education CompetenciesChapter 1 Environmental Justice and Social Work Practice: Historical RootsChapter 2 Social Work's Foundational Concepts: Values and Skills for Environmental JusticeChapter 3 Theoretical Foundations: Systems, Narrative, and Structural TheoriesChapter 4 Ethics for Environmental JusticeChapter 5 Understanding Yourself and the Natural EnvironmentChapter 6 Phases of Social Work Practice for Environmental JusticeChapter 7 Social Work Practice with Individuals and Families Towards Environmental JusticeChapter 8 Social Work Practice with Groups and Communities Towards Environmental JusticeChapter 9 Social Work Practice with Policies and Organizations Towards Environmental JusticeChapter 10 Holistic Practice: Stewarding People and the EnvironmentIndex
