Environmental Practice in the Human Services: Integration of Micro and Macro Roles, Skills, and Contexts

Environmental Practice in the Human Services points to the need for the human services to return to their historic mission of environmental change. It moves beyond the more general conceptual emphasis on person-in-environment in current literature toward the development of an environmental practice technology based on an intervention model that prescribes specific micro and macro roles and functions. It may open the way to recapturing the conceptual breadth which characterized the first 40 years of social work as a professional and occupational entity.

Bernard Neugeboren, PhD, is Professor at the Rutgers University School of Social Work where he initiated and developed a masters program in social work administration and has taught since 1967.