- Title
- Changing values and valuing change: toward an ecospiritual perspective in social work
- Creator
- Gray, Mel; Coates, John
- Relation
- International Social Work Vol. 56, Issue 3, p. 356-368
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020872812474009
- Publisher
- Sage
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- This article examines the relationship between spirituality and the environment and the changing values required as we move toward a new politics of social work where commitment to social and political involvement is integral to spirituality, most notably surrounding environmental change. The ecospiritual perspective recognizes human interests are inextricably bound with planetary well-being. It serves not only to broaden social work beyond a preoccupation with the social, but also to shift professional thinking away from the pre-eminence of individualism and dualism, and the unquestioned acceptance of progress and uncontrolled growth that make it difficult for social workers to fulfil their role as agents of social and environmental justice.
- Subject
- ecospiritual perspective; ecospirituality; environment; social work values; spirituality
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1041938
- Identifier
- uon:13973
- Identifier
- ISSN:0020-8728
- Rights
- Reprinted with permission of SAGE Publications.
- Language
- eng
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