Summary Of Summers's Ecological Model

According to Summers (2012), using the ecological model to assess clients allows the practitioner to look at the problem from several dimensions. The model must be applied in both the personal and social context. The practitioner must also evaluate the individual’s biological and psychological characteristics because they provide a guideline for starting where the client is. The client and the contexts are then looked at from three levels: the macro level, which focuses on the individual and there feeling; the meso level, which looks at the client external systems such as family, friends and religious groups; the macro level, which looks at societal institutions or infrastructures that influenced the client’s problem.
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