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Social workers as an action-oriented sociotherapist: an existential health discourse
University West, Department of Social and Behavioural Studies, Division of Psychology, Pedagogy and Sociology.
2022 (English)In: Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Social Work, ISSN 1542-6432, Vol. 41, no 4, p. 425-436Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The purpose of this paper is to reinvigorate sociotherapy by contextualizing its practice within a logotherapeutic and an existential health discourse. This approach is used to enhance meaningfulness in life within the framework of a sociotherapy, through mindfulness practices such as body scanning, and greenspace activities such as walking and gardening. This discourse has been largely inspired by: 1) sociotherapy’s capacity to facilitate existential health; 2) the international research community’s struggle for a broader concept of health; 3) World Health Organization’s concept of existential health; and, 4) Frankl’s assertion that people must be understood holistically as physical, psychological, social,this paper is to reinvigorate and spiritual beings. This paper approaches the social worker as sociotherapist (SWS) from an ecological and systemic perspective, the aim being to move the client from an egoistic to a mindful and ecological mind-set.  

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Taylor & Francis, 2022. Vol. 41, no 4, p. 425-436
Keywords [en]
article; assertiveness; discourse analysis; gardening; human; human experiment; logotherapy; mindfulness; social work; social worker; sociotherapy; walking; World Health Organization
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Social Work
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-19169DOI: 10.1080/15426432.2022.2103487ISI: 000859562400001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85135206233OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hv-19169DiVA, id: diva2:1707314
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Swedish Research Council, 2017-06139
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 This research was funded by an International Postdoc Grant (Dnr. 2017-06139) from the Swedish Research Council.

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