Can the Ecological Model Guide Social Work Practice?

Abstract

The ecological model holds conceptual appeal to describe how people interact with their environments. However, this model remains too abstract for it to usefully guide practice. Theory and research in the area of social cognition, that is, how people make sense of their surroundings and then respond to what they see, are used to explicate a basic component of the ecological model: that people create niches for themselves from their environments. Using this concept of the niche to operationalize the person-environment interaction, suggestions for assessment and intervention planning can be made.

Cite this work

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 31 citations exist upstream.

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.