"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 calls 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, Dean, School of Social Service, Saint Louis University
Dimensions of Human Behavior: Person and Environment, Second Edition presents the time-honored person-in-environment approach to understanding human behavior. It provides a multi-theoretical analysis to help students recognize the dimensions of person and environment involved in behavior. Like the First Edition, the general approach of weaving powerful case studies with theory and research has been maintained, but all chapters have been updated to reflect recent census data, emerging social trends, and new developments in theory and research. This edition also pays greater attention to human diversity.
Person and Environment is the companion volume to The Changing Life Course (ISBN 0-7619-8764-9). The two volumes are also available as a Two-Volume Kit (ISBN0-7619-8803-3). An Instructor's Manual containing chapter summaries, suggested classroom activities and discussions, and essay and multiple choice questions is also available (ISBN: 0-7619-8804-1).
Show more"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 calls 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, Dean, School of Social Service, Saint Louis University
Dimensions of Human Behavior: Person and Environment, Second Edition presents the time-honored person-in-environment approach to understanding human behavior. It provides a multi-theoretical analysis to help students recognize the dimensions of person and environment involved in behavior. Like the First Edition, the general approach of weaving powerful case studies with theory and research has been maintained, but all chapters have been updated to reflect recent census data, emerging social trends, and new developments in theory and research. This edition also pays greater attention to human diversity.
Person and Environment is the companion volume to The Changing Life Course (ISBN 0-7619-8764-9). The two volumes are also available as a Two-Volume Kit (ISBN0-7619-8803-3). An Instructor's Manual containing chapter summaries, suggested classroom activities and discussions, and essay and multiple choice questions is also available (ISBN: 0-7619-8804-1).
Show morePart I: A Multidemensional Approach for Multi-Faceted Social
Work
Visual Essay: Looking at a Complex World
Chapter 1: Aspects of Human Behavior: Person, Environment, Time -
Elizabeth D. Hutchison
Chapter 2: Theoretical Perspectives on Human Behavior - Elizabeth
D. Hutchison and Leanne Wood Charlesworth
Knowledge into Practice: A Day in the Life of a Social Worker -
Elizabeth D. Hutchison
Part II: The Multiple Dimensions of Person
Visual Essay: Understanding the Whole Person
Chapter 3: The Biologial Person - Stephen French Gilson
Chapter 4: The Psychological Person: Cognition, Emotion, and Self -
Joseph Walsh
Chapter 5: The Psycholgoical Person: Relationships, Stress, and
Coping - Joseph Walsh
Chapter 6: The Spiritual Person - Michael J. Sheridan
Knowledge into Practice: An Interview with John - Martin
Schwartz
Part III: The Multiple Dimensions of Environment
Chapter 7: The Physical Environment - Elizabeth D. Hutchison
Chapter 8: Culture - Linwood Cousins
Chapter 9: Social Institutions and Social Structure - Elizabeth D.
Hutchison and Amy Waldbillig
Chapter 10: Families - Nancy R. Vosler
Chapter 11: Small Groups - Elizabeth P. Cramer
Chapter 12: Formal Organizations - Elizabeth D. Hutchison
Chapter 13: Communities - Elizabeth D. Hutchison
Chapter 14: Social Movements - Elizabeth D. Hutchison
Knowledge into Practice: Margaret Ryan at Sacred Heart Center -
Elizabeth D. Hutchison
Works Cited
Glossary/Index
Elizabeth D. Hutchison received her MSW from the George Warren
Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis
and her PhD 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.
"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, Dean*
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