Dimensions of Human Behavior: The Changing Life Course

by Elizabeth D. Hutchison

Overview

An authentic breakthrough in the text literature for Human Behavior and Social Environment courses! These two paperback volumes provide a rich understanding of person, environment and time unmatched in other texts, and are acutely sensitive to difference, diversity and the mission of social work. The texts provide an integrated micro/macro perspective on human behavior. Insights into human behavior from biology, the physical environment, and the humanities add a dimension to these texts not found elsewhere. Numerous teaching aids show students what happens in real practice and how to prepare for it.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781544339344
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	10/15/2018
Edition description:	Sixth Edition
Pages:	536
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Elizabeth D. Hutchison received her MSW from the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis and her Ph D from the University at Albany, State University of New York. She was on the faculty in the social work department at Elms College from 1980 to 1987 and was chair of the department from 1982 to 1987. She was on the faculty in the School of Social Work at Virginia Commonwealth University from 1987 to 2009, where she taught courses in human behavior and the social environment, social work and social justice, and child and family policy; she also served as field practicum liaison. She has been a social worker in health, mental health, aging, and child and family welfare settings and engaged in volunteer work with incarcerated women and environmental justice for farm workers in the Coachella Valley of California. She is committed to providing social workers with comprehensive, current, and useful frameworks for thinking about human behavior. Her other research interests focus on child and family welfare. She lives in Reno, Nevada, where she enjoys hiking around Lake Tahoe and being a hands-on grandmother to two humans and one dog. She collaborates with the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Northern Nevada on local social, racial, economic, and environmental justice issues.

Table of Contents

Part I. A Multidimensional Approach For Multi-Faceted Social Work

Chapter 1: Aspects of Human Behavior: Person, Environment, Time
Chapter 2: Theoretical Perspectives on Human Behavior by Elizabeth D. Hutchison and Leanne Wood Charlesworth

Part II. The Multiple Dimensions of Person

Chapter 3: The Biological Person by Stephen French Gilson
Chapter 4: Psychological Person: Reason and Passion by Joseph Walsh
Chapter 5: The Psychological Person: Stress, Coping, and Adaptation by Joseph Walsh
Chapter 6: Spiritual Person by Michael J. Sheridan

Part III. The Multiple Dimensions Of Environment

Chapter 7: The Physical Environment
Chapter 8: Institutions and Social Structure
Chapter 9: Culture by Linwood Cousins
Chapter 10: Formal Organizations
Chapter 11: Communities
Chapter 12: Social Movements
Chapter 13: Small Groups by Elizabeth P. Cramer
Chapter 14: Families by Nancy R. Vosler

Bibliography
Glossary
Index

Editorial Reviews

I just love this book! It is meticulously put together in a way that helps the reader understand every dimensional aspect of a person based on time. This book is very in-depth with explaining the basic concepts and reiterates them through the use of cases. I appreciate the implications for social work being implemented in each chapter.”

Annalease M. M. Gibson

This book is very well written, superbly informative, user-friendly, and replete with invaluable student and instructor resources. I would recommend it, unconditionally, to anyone teaching undergraduate HBSE.”

Roger Delgado

This is the most comprehensive and succinct reference to human development across the life span. It is an excellent reference for human behavior specialists and provides timeless information that can be accessed for a more comprehensive assessment of children/family.”

Rosalind Corbett

This is a well-written book about all of the facets of human behavior—something everyone is advised to know about. With each edition, I find that the content is thoroughly updated and its multiculturalism is increasingly expanded, making this an exceptional text.”

Rose M. Perez

The perfect textbook—it covers everything in a simple and straightforward way and gives social work students the introduction to understanding theory that they can then learn in depth in advanced courses.”

Ilze Earner

The explicit focus on and reiteration of social work competencies throughout is particularly impressive and helps students preparing for licensure to draw concrete connections between the knowledge in the text and what they will be expected to know.”

Jamie Mitchell

The use of cases and questions offered the connection to context that we were looking for.”

Gwenelle S. O’Neal

"Elizabeth Hutchison's latest edition of Dimensions of Human Behavior is a powerful text that captures our changing and developing lives as we each journey through our own distinct life course. The books call our attention to the importance of the interactions of time, people, and environment as our ongoing life story is played out. As social workers, this text draws our attention to the need to better understand development as a cyclical process, unique for each person. Timely client system examples, diverse family development, and good social work implications and interventions are a few of the many strengths in this edition."

Susan Tebb

Great introductory textbook covering material related to Human Behavior in the Social Environment at an appropriate depth and breadth.”

Lisa M. Shannon

Overall, I believe Elizabeth Hutchison has done an outstanding job in addressing the unique biopsychosocial aspects associated with each stage of development along the life course.”

David Skiba

The use of cases and questions offered the connection to context that we were looking for.”

Gwenelle S. O’Neal