'Green' Practice: Community and Environmental Wellbeing
Social Work
Environmental Social Work is emerging as a specialist area of social work practice.
One network is the Green Social Work Network of the AASW (Australia): view website HERE
which seeks as its purpose:
• Greening social work practice
• Raising awareness around our role as Green Social Work practitioners
• Highlight the different dimensions of sustainability: social, environmental, ethical, historical, intergenerational, and economic
• Promote a planetary-consciousness approach
• Promote a holistic understanding of the environment
• Promote sustainable ways of living and practicing as social workers
• Promote eco-integrity ethics
• Advocate the need to embed sustainability and spirituality in the social work curriculum
• Promote adding a spiritual model to bio-psycho-social assessment
• Advocate that human-constructed ethics should not promote the exploitation of animals
• Identify the consequences of slow violence and ways macro, meso and micro social work practice can bring about social change
• Promote the decolonization of social work practice
• Critically analyse the challenges neoliberalism brings forth
One network is the Green Social Work Network of the AASW (Australia): view website HERE
which seeks as its purpose:
• Greening social work practice
• Raising awareness around our role as Green Social Work practitioners
• Highlight the different dimensions of sustainability: social, environmental, ethical, historical, intergenerational, and economic
• Promote a planetary-consciousness approach
• Promote a holistic understanding of the environment
• Promote sustainable ways of living and practicing as social workers
• Promote eco-integrity ethics
• Advocate the need to embed sustainability and spirituality in the social work curriculum
• Promote adding a spiritual model to bio-psycho-social assessment
• Advocate that human-constructed ethics should not promote the exploitation of animals
• Identify the consequences of slow violence and ways macro, meso and micro social work practice can bring about social change
• Promote the decolonization of social work practice
• Critically analyse the challenges neoliberalism brings forth
Therapy and Counselling
What psychotherapy can do for the climate and biodiversity crises: Online article on The Conversation, view HERE