Whittaker And Tracy's Model Of Person Environment Practice

Kemp, Whittaker and Tracy (1997) defined Person Environment Practice as a model that helps us accomplish three things with strategic time. The first one is helping clients when dealing with life situations that can be stressful, dealing with environmental challenges, and learning how to use environmental resources. The second one is promoting social empowerment by linking individuals concerns. The third one is by achieving active assessment, intervention and engagement in the environment, this could mean interventions in the communities. Kemp, Whittaker and Tracy (1997) emphasises on the importance of how P.E.P refocuses attention on environmental intervention. Environmental interventions are an important part in communities to improve the

This leading into the second building block, Mutuality. Zoe Snyder (2014) states that mutuality is honouring your true self while encouraging others to do the same. Mutuality is all about being open and honest with families while being intervened (Kemp, Whittaker & Tracy, 1997). When helping people we all like to think that they will help us back, the next block that is being looked at is known as the “helper principle” this block is called Reciprocity. According to the Merriam Webster (1828) Reciprocity is a mutual dependency between two people or more. When concentrating on two people there is a mutual dependency on both, giving and receiving or receiving and giving, this can be from the professional to the clients or the other way around, it can be from client to client (Kemp, Whittaker & Tracy 197). When a child and youth care working are in a middle of a intervention, they don’t look at what is wrong in the child or their families they look at the strengths in the child and the parents, this is known as the social assets within a client (Kemp, Whittaker & Tracy,

Grohol (2016) carries on by saying that “resilience is ordinary, not extraordinary.” When a person says they are optimistic, what does that really mean? Optimization means making the most of everything, even when the odds are not in favour it is looking for the best possible outcome (Dictionary, 2017). Kemp, Whittaker and Tracy (1997) state that optimization is creating conditions for people to reach their upper limit of developmental potential. Optimizing is a great tool when looking at the next block, Social Integration, Kemp, Whittaker and Tracy (1997), look at social integration at raising concern about certain difficulties family might face when going into a new community, by doing this it helps them to keep the social order in line. As people we can have difficulty doing the day to day routines that we do, yet when we find a sense of meaning these don’t become difficulties anymore, this meaning that we are coherent with them (Kemp, Whittaker & Tracy,