Full Description
This comprehensive text integrates multiple dimensions of the human experience in a reader-friendly style and provides the interface between developmental theory and practice.
Human Behavior and the Social Environment, 1/e, introduces and incorporates current research on the biological, psychological, socio-cultural, and spiritual dimensions of human behavior throughout the life-cycle. The authors provide an appropriate focus on contemporary perspectives that are central to the practice of social work, such as trauma, neurobiological underpinnings of behavior, chronic illness and disability. They pay particular attention to models of racial, ethnic, class, gender and gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender identity development; to the influences of gender, sexual orientation, social class, race and culture on family structure and function, and to issues pertinent to a variety of "post-modern" family forms.
Additionally, the text explores macro influences of groups, communities and organizations in individual chapters. It also contains a chapter on social welfare policy that examines the impact of specific policies at each stage of the life-cycle and paves the way for new directions in research and future directions in policy and practice.
Contents
BRIEF CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1 An Integrating Framework for Human Behavior Theory and Social Work Practice
CHAPTER 2 Neurobiological Underpinnings of Human Development
CHAPTER 3 Theories of Development
CHAPTER 4 Identity Development
CHAPTER 5 The Family in Society
CHAPTER 6 Group-Work Practice
CHAPTER 7 Communities and Organizations
CHAPTER 8 Spiritual Development by Carolyn Jacobs, M.S.W., Ph. D.
CHAPTER 9 Infancy
CHAPTER 10 Early Childhood: The Toddler and Early School Years
CHAPTER 11 Middle Childhood
CHAPTER 12 Adolescence
CHAPTER 13 Early Adulthood
CHAPTER 14 Middle Adulthood
CHAPTER 15 Diversity in Older Adulthood by Ann Roy, Ph. D.
CHAPTER 16 Trauma and Development
CHAPTER 17 Chronic Illness and Disability
CHAPTER 18 Social Policy Through the Life Cycle by Joyce E. Everett, Ph. D.
