Write a research paper outlining the significance of maintaining a connection with Mother Earth.https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/50457
In the working and evaluating phases, the social worker and client take action toward resolving focal issues and pursuing established goals. In this process, both use empathic skills and work-phase expressive skills, and systematically evaluate progress toward goal achievement. Remember to point out that the work together will be coming to an end at a particular point in the near future.
In the Clarke and Yellow Bird (2020) chapter, it is highlighted that all healing starts from recognizing the intrinsic rights and having respect for Mother Earth. The field of social work often highlights the significance of human rights, but only recently have environmental rights begun to enter our professional vocabulary.
Through the working and evaluating phases, we can incorporate and include actions supporting the reality of Mother Earth having rights.
As human rights professionals, social workers are ethically bound to incorporate the principles of dignity, respect, integrity, and self-determination into their everyday practice with clients. But what about the place where we live? We must acknowledge the effects of settler colonialism, capitalism, and climate disasters we are currently experiencing. There is a natural rhythm and relationship we have with the land, water, and sky. We can learn how to replicate or mimic these natural systems into our social work practice.
After reading the 2010 Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth by Bolivia on pages 169-170 of Clarke and Yellowbird book, choose one out of the six declarations found in the preamble. After choosing one, answer the following questions:
How can social work as a profession incorporate this right of Mother Earth into everyday practice? Focus on the working and evaluating phases.
Name the declaration you have chosen and include a short explanation of how you can use it in either the Working or Evaluating phase in your future social work practice.
