Co-Creating a “Sustainable New Normal” for social work and beyond: Embracing an ecosocial worldview

M Powers, M Rinkel, P Kumar - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
We have an opportunity to help shape new systems and structures that redress injustices
and course correct us for a trajectory that is infinitely better than the one on which we are …

Development and implementation of an ecological justice advanced practice curriculum for master of social work students

SM Bexell, R Forbes - Social Work in Mental Health, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This article outlines the development, evolution, and implementation of an ecological justice
advanced practice curriculum for Master of Social Work students at the University of Denver …

The state of eco-social work training in Canada: Transformative praxis for climate constrained futures

T Smith-Carrier, J MacArthur - International Social Work, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
As climate disasters increase, social workers will increasingly be called upon to help
communities with the related dislocations, eco-anxieties, and social transformations. This …

(Re-) imagining social work in the anthropocene

CV Panagiotaros, J Boddy, T Gray… - The British Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The ecological crisis, marked by the Anthropocene epoch, is having a major impact on the
global ecosystem, and the consequences are predicted to become increasingly severe in …

Financial education as political education: a framework for targeting systems as sites of change

T Friedline, AK Wood, SP Morrow - Journal of Community Practice, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The ability of individual-level interventions to improve people's financial conditions is
compromised when the root causes of precarity develop at systems levels. While it can be a …

COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and indigenous knowledges informing the future of social work

MK Dennis, FML Bell - Qualitative Social Work, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The COVID-19 pandemic revealed more fully social, economic, racial, and environmental
disparities and offers a glimpse into the future. We recognize this moment as an opportunity …

[PDF][PDF] Sustainability and new economic approaches. An exploration for social work research

J Peeters - SPSW Working Paper Series, 2022 - lirias.kuleuven.be
This study is a step in a longer conceptual research process to connect social work with the
urgent societal mission of a just sustainability transition, here with a focus on its economic …

Perspectives of Ecosocial Practice in Human Services: An International Comparison between Finland and Australia

T Nöjd, H Boetto, W Bowles, K Närhi… - The British Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
This article reports on research in Finland and Australia exploring the similarities and
differences between Finnish and Australian human service professionals' perspectives …

Social work and environmental justice: Expanding critical social work

S Rao, S Teixeira, S Billiot - The Routledge Handbook of …, 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter seeks to expand the scope of critical social work to include environmental
justice and socio-environmental debates. Increasingly recognised as the most cross-cutting …

Embracing an ecosocial worldview for climate justice and collective healing

S Engstrom, M Power - Journal of Transdisciplinary Peace Praxis, 2021 - dspace.stir.ac.uk
We are faced with an ongoing global climate crisis, the more recent public health crisis
brought on by COVID-19, increased racial and police violence, ableism, and the intersecting …