Ecomap Analysis
An ecomap is a graphical map of a household or individual set within their social environment, showing the connections between the focal system and the external systems around it — extended family, work, school, health care, friends, agencies, religion, and recreation — and coding each connection as strong, tenuous, or stressful, with arrows for the flow of energy and resources. Ecomap analysis is the practice of drawing and interpreting this map to assess the person-in-environment, the central organizing concept of social work. It was introduced by Ann Hartman in 1978.
Source record
Citations copied verbatim from the method’s source record. No claim-level verification is inferred from them.
- Hartman, A. (1978). Diagrammatic assessment of family relationships. Social Casework, 59(8), 465–476. · DOI 10.1177/104438947805900803
- Hartman, A., & Laird, J. (1983). Family-Centered Social Work Practice. Free Press. · ISBN 9780029140703
Curated claims
Claims persisted in the evidence ledger, each with its own assessment.
This view does not invent a claim assessment when the ledger has none.
Related methods
Generated from the method graph and shown as machine-suggested relations — no evidence claim is inferred.