Abstract:

The concept of environment includes many elements such as physical, social and cultural. The environment, which is the subject of study of different disciplines, has started to be discussed from different perspectives, along with problems such as global warming and climate crisis in recent years. In social work, the environment is the focus of social work knowledge and practice. The ecological approach, the systems approach, and the individual perspective within the environment are theories that show that the environment has an important place in social work. In these theories, the concept of environment in social work has been handled as a social environment, with a human-centered perspective, but it is seen that this approach has begun to change with the global ecological crises. How the environment is handled in social work is related to modernism and postmodernism, which affect society and science in many ways. For this reason, in this article, how the basic features of modernism and postmodernism shape the social work's view of the concept of environment, its practices and researches are given.

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