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Eco Map 3

The ecomap is a visual tool used in social work to understand an individual or family within their environmental context. It assesses resources, supports, and stresses by mapping out transactional relationships between the client and their environment, including social supports, community resources, and stressors. Completing an ecomap with a client can help identify strengths, needs, and boundary issues to inform assessment and intervention planning.

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Eco Map 3

The ecomap is a visual tool used in social work to understand an individual or family within their environmental context. It assesses resources, supports, and stresses by mapping out transactional relationships between the client and their environment, including social supports, community resources, and stressors. Completing an ecomap with a client can help identify strengths, needs, and boundary issues to inform assessment and intervention planning.

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The Ecomap (Points = 1) Using an ecosystem perspective in social work practice, the social worker attempts to understand individuals

and families in their environmental context. The ecomap is a visual tool designed to organize and clarify information about the transactional relationships between the individual/family and their environment at a specific point in time. The ecomap is constructed with the client to assess resources and supports, as well as, stresses in the familys interactions with their environment. It can be used in a broad range of practice settings with individuals and families. It is particularly helpful during assessment and intervention planning, as it helps both clients and social workers to better understand the nature of the familys relationships with individuals, groups, organizations, and the community. Completing the ecomap can help the social worker and the client to identify strengths, needs, and boundary issues. Completion of this assignment includes a written analysis of the transactional relationships between the individual/family and their environment. Special attention should be given to the following: Social supports (family, friends, religious organizations, support groups, neighbors, pets, etc.) Community resources (housing assistance, daycare, financial assistance, health and dental care, mental health and substance abuse services, legal assistance, transportation, employment opportunities, nutrition, etc.) Stressors (legal difficulties, family dynamics, financial problems, health issues, housing instability, daycare access, transportation, domestic issues, employment obstacles, substance use, pregnancy, parenting, discrimination, etc.)

There are a number of ways to complete an ecomap. The map can be started using a blank sheet of paper and adding symbols and narrative during the process. A blank preprinted ecomap (click web link @ http://www.gingerich.net/courses/SSWM517/ecomap.pdf) can be the starting point for completing the map, or a computer program can be used. Further instructions for ecomaps can be accessed at the following web link http://www.writeenough.org.uk/formats_ecomap.htm Consult with your Field Instructor to determine the format used by your agency. Once the components of the ecomap are constructed the student should: discuss the relationship interaction between the client system and the various ecomap components illustrate the dynamics of these relationships with the appropriate relationship connectors (see ecomap instructions) SUGGESTED READING ON ECOMAPS Hartman, A. and Laird, J., Family Centered Social Work Practice. New York: The Free Press, 1983.

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