Nature of Social Work: An Ecocentered Analysis of Key Social Work Statements.
This article addresses references to people's natural environments in some of the central declarative statements that shape social work worldwide. Four types of documents were analyzed, including statements associated with the Global Definition of Social Work , the Global Standards for Social Work E...
| Published in: | Social Work Vol. 67; no. 4; pp. 371 - 381 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Oct2022
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