Person-Environment Practice: The Social Ecology of Interpersonal Helping Book

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