ABSTRACT
Introduction The constellation of the ‘person in environment’ can be claimed to form one of the most important principles in social work practice and theory. It has been argued that the framework of the ‘person in environment’ has been applied primarily to intrapersonal and social interactions, and not enough attention has been paid to professional functions related to policy practice and to interactions with the ‘built’, physical and natural environment (Rogge and Cox 2002, Gray et al. 2012, Kemp 2011, Molyneux 2010, Zapf 2010, Närhi and Matthies 2001, 2016). This chapter focuses on social workers’ understanding of the relationship between the environment and human wellbeing and how institutional strategies of social work and organizing social work practices have shaped practices and practitioners’ understandings of the ‘person in environment’.
