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This text is for an advanced undergraduate or graduate course in human behavior and the social environment, for students in social work and psychology. With a focus on diversity and mechanisms of oppression, coverage includes areas not often discussed in similar texts, such as social movements. This fourth edition is expanded to offer integrated coverage of all 10 core competencies laid out by the 2008 Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards of the Council on Social Work Education. Part I reviews theoretical perspectives on behavior, and part II explores the dimensions of the individual, with chapters devoted to biological, psychological, psychosocial, and spiritual aspects. Part III examines the environment, from the physical environment through families and institutions. Learning features include case studies, key terms and glossary, critical thinking questions, and b&w photos. A student website contains additional study features, plus author podcasts and links to journal articles. A teacher site offers slides, a test bank, class activities, a wiki, audio and video links, and a quiz game template. Hutchison formerly taught social work at Virginia Commonwealth University. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Author Elizabeth D. Hutchison's multidimensional framework (Person, Environment, and Time) for human behavior theory courses helps instructors organize course material in a meaningful way for students. This EPAS-ready text provides students with a comprehensive and readable global perspective on the person and environment construct, weaving powerful case studies with recent innovations in theory and research.The companion text, Dimensions of Human Behavior: The Changing Life Course, covers the dimension of human behavior across time. Together, these two textbooks provide the most comprehensive coverage available for theory courses. Order the books together with bundle ISBN: 978-1-4129-8881-0.This core text is designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate Human Behavior and the Social Environment courses in departments of social work and psychology."Through its close-knit, and yet, broad and comprehensive treatment of all aspects of human behavior, Dimensions of Human Behavior: Person and Environment achieves its superiority over the one-paradigm human behavior books that run into unavoidable stereotypes of human behavior, and leave out necessary details about the investigated case, because of the limited scope of a single paradigm. It is indeed ‘a multidimensional approach for multifaceted social work’. It is strengthened further by its multicultural and global case studies, and state of the art developments in the social and behavioral sciences that have been added to the new edition composing another dimension in which the book casts human behavior. Therefore, I daresay, Dimensions of Human behavior: Person and Environment makes the fascinating subject of human behavior even more intriguing." - Alfred T. Kisubi, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
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