Malcolm Payne
Critical Eco Practice
Číslo: 4/2023
Periodikum: Sociální práce
Klíčová slova: eco practice, green practice, deep ecology, ecological systems practice, critical theory, social environment, sustainability, climate change, disasters
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OBJECTIVES: This paper reviews the practice implications of texts proposing an eco or green
social work. While these developments reject social work’s historic emphasis on the social
environment and ecological systems practice, eco practice theory has not achieved significant
influence on social work practice and theory. THEORETICAL BASE: Practice objectives
proposed in practice theory in textbook literature. METHODS: Analysis of trends in a textbook
literature review. OUTCOMES: Although ecological sustainability concerns reflect important
social issues with increasing impacts on political and social debate, they have not penetrated
social work practice. This is because eco concerns are a global social issue requiring social work
interaction policy constructions and fail to connect with social work agency and practitioner
concerns. While these concerns overlap with critical practice theory, eco practice proposes
a community grassroots practice which does not reflect local community concerns about poverty
and the social environment of many social work clients. SOCIAL WORK IMPLICATIONS:
The paper proposes the need for a more complex understanding linking the policy and practice
implications of eco concerns, working to develop empirical evidence of the impacts of eco concerns
on clients’ lives and including respect for the future of the changing natural environment in social
work’s ethical and practice framework.
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social work. While these developments reject social work’s historic emphasis on the social
environment and ecological systems practice, eco practice theory has not achieved significant
influence on social work practice and theory. THEORETICAL BASE: Practice objectives
proposed in practice theory in textbook literature. METHODS: Analysis of trends in a textbook
literature review. OUTCOMES: Although ecological sustainability concerns reflect important
social issues with increasing impacts on political and social debate, they have not penetrated
social work practice. This is because eco concerns are a global social issue requiring social work
interaction policy constructions and fail to connect with social work agency and practitioner
concerns. While these concerns overlap with critical practice theory, eco practice proposes
a community grassroots practice which does not reflect local community concerns about poverty
and the social environment of many social work clients. SOCIAL WORK IMPLICATIONS:
The paper proposes the need for a more complex understanding linking the policy and practice
implications of eco concerns, working to develop empirical evidence of the impacts of eco concerns
on clients’ lives and including respect for the future of the changing natural environment in social
work’s ethical and practice framework.