Nature-based therapy in Botswana and Scotland : Re-imagining social work for the climate crisis

Title data

Engstrom, Sandra ; Reece, Koreen ; Katisi, Masego:
Nature-based therapy in Botswana and Scotland : Re-imagining social work for the climate crisis.
In: Nordic Journal of Wellbeing and Sustainable Welfare Development. Vol. 3 (2024) Issue 2 . - pp. 116-130.
ISSN 2703-9986
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18261/njwel.3.2.5

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Abstract in another language

This article discusses nature-based therapeutic interventions for young people and their families in Scotland and Botswana, to explore how green social work practice might tackle deepening inequalities in the context of the climate crisis. Both countries struggle with long-standing inequalities, and both face similar threats as the climate crisis advances –complicated by the legacies of other shared crises, from pandemics to poverty. With similar modes of governance and a shared entanglement in the British colonial project, social work practice encounters similar challenges in addressing the intersecting crises both countries face. Co-written by two social workers and a social anthropologist with personal, professional and research experience in these countries, the article draws on autoethnography to make comparisons that enable imagining new possibilities for social work practice in a time of accumulating crisis.

Further data

Item Type:	Article in a journal
Refereed:	Yes
Keywords:	climate crisis; nature-based therapy; green social work; inequalities; autoethnography
Institutions of the University:	Faculties > Faculty of Cultural Studies > Chair Social Anthropology Profile Fields > Advanced Fields > African Studies
Result of work at the UBT:	Yes
DDC Subjects:	300 Social sciences
Date Deposited:	18 Dec 2024 07:13
Last Modified:	18 Dec 2024 07:13
URI:	https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/91438