What is Ecological Counseling, anyway?
You may be doing it, or aspects of it, already and not know it! Basically, practitioners think of people being connected with their environments and vice-versa. The famous social psychologist, Kurt Lewin, perhaps said it best: Behavior is a function of persons interacting with environments [B=f(P,E)]. The new book edited by Robert Conyne and Ellen Cook of the University of Cincinnati , Ecological Counseling: An innovative approach to conceptualizing person-environment interaction (2004, American Counseling Association) addresses ecological counseling in detail.
