Social work scholars have called for greater attention to one’s social environment. Yet, there remains a dearth of literature that attends to built and social environments. This methodological paper describes embodied geographic methods as a promising answer to bridge the division between person and place in social work. Drawing upon embodiment and geographic methods, with particular attention to qualitative geographic information systems methods, we explicate methodological approaches that can be used to explore the relationship between one’s physical and psychological body and one’s social environment. We define embodied geographic methods and provide examples of methodological approaches. This paper provides social work researchers and practitioners with methodological approaches they can employ to operationalize the person-in-environment framework in research and practice.
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