Open AccessProfound Connections Between Person And Place
Author(s) -
Michael Zapf
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
critical social work
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1543-9372
DOI - 10.22329/csw.v6i2.5734
Subject(s) - spirituality , perspective (graphical) , foundation (evidence) , resource (disambiguation) , psychology , sociology , social psychology , place attachment , epistemology , environmental ethics , political science , computer science , medicine , philosophy , computer network , pathology , artificial intelligence , law , alternative medicine
Recent efforts to incorporate spirituality into the knowledge foundation of the urban-based social work profession have often presented spirituality as either an additional aspect of the individual client to be assessed or as just another resource for use in clinical practice. A rural perspective, with particular attention to the worldview offered by traditional knowledge systems, suggests a very different understanding of spirituality that does not separate person from place. When the environment is understood as a conscious entity, a partner, then spiritual transformation must occur with the environment or as the environment, not in it.