
Human Behavior in the Social Environment
Perspectives on Development and the Life Course
Anissa Rogers(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
7th Edition
Published on 5. June 2025
Book
Hardback
546 pages
978-1-032-80016-5 (ISBN)
Description
Human Behavior in the Social Environment: Perspectives on Development and the Life Course returns for a seventh edition to provide students with an expansive overview of the major theories and issues related to human behavior and the social environment that are important to understand for professional practice across a variety of cases and contexts.
Maintaining its clarity and cohesion, this edition has been updated to offer students current and relevant information on important topics in social work practice and expanded to help students understand the complexity of the issues they will face in the field, including how poverty, diversity, and strengths affect human development and behavior. Several new theoretical perspectives appear in this update, including indigenous theory, new feminism, and restorative justice, and these additions complement the major psychological, sociological, life course, and anti-oppressive theories that have come to define this book's grounded and balanced coverage.
Illustrated and fully supported by a set of Quick Guides for students engaged in field work, vignettes woven throughout the book, and a full package of interactive cases and instructor-led resources that are available on www.routledgesw.com, the new edition of Human Behavior in the Social Environment is a perfect complement to this foundation course on the undergraduate and graduate level. Its signature theoretical framework equips students to have a well-rounded understanding to call upon and apply to the myriad client problems and situations they will need to practice social work.
Maintaining its clarity and cohesion, this edition has been updated to offer students current and relevant information on important topics in social work practice and expanded to help students understand the complexity of the issues they will face in the field, including how poverty, diversity, and strengths affect human development and behavior. Several new theoretical perspectives appear in this update, including indigenous theory, new feminism, and restorative justice, and these additions complement the major psychological, sociological, life course, and anti-oppressive theories that have come to define this book's grounded and balanced coverage.
Illustrated and fully supported by a set of Quick Guides for students engaged in field work, vignettes woven throughout the book, and a full package of interactive cases and instructor-led resources that are available on www.routledgesw.com, the new edition of Human Behavior in the Social Environment is a perfect complement to this foundation course on the undergraduate and graduate level. Its signature theoretical framework equips students to have a well-rounded understanding to call upon and apply to the myriad client problems and situations they will need to practice social work.
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Series
Edition
7th edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Postgraduate and Undergraduate Core
Illustrations
43 farbige Abbildungen, 17 Farbfotos bzw. farbige Rasterbilder, 26 farbige Zeichnungen, 30 farbige Tabellen
30 Tables, color; 26 Line drawings, color; 17 Halftones, color; 43 Illustrations, color
Dimensions
Height: 260 mm
Width: 183 mm
Thickness: 36 mm
Weight
1279 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-80016-5 (9781032800165)
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Human Behavior in the Social Environment
Perspectives on Development and the Life Course
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Perspectives on Development and the Life Course
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Perspectives on Development and the Life Course
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Anissa Rogers
Human Behavior in the Social Environment
Perspectives on Development and the Life Course
Book
06/2022
6th Edition
Routledge
€282.26
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Person
Anissa Taun Rogers is a licensed clinical social worker with more than 25 years of higher education experience. She currently serves as Professor in the Department of Social Work at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. She is also chair of the MSW program. She has served as the director of the Social Work Program and as the chair of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences and co-director of Gender and Women Studies at the University of Portland and Associate Dean of the Palm Desert Campus of California State University, San Bernardino.
Content
1. Human Behavior and the Social Work Profession 2. Lenses for Conceptualizing Problems and Interventions: The Person in the Environment 3. Lenses for Conceptualizing Problems and Interventions: Biopsychosocial Dimensions 4. Lenses for Conceptualizing Problems and Interventions: Sociocultural Dimensions 5. Lenses for Conceptualizing Problems and Interventions: Social Change Dimensions 6. Pre-Pregnancy and Prenatal Issues 7. Development in Infancy and Early Childhood 8. Development in Middle Childhood 9. Development in Adolescence 10. Development in Early Adulthood 11. Development in Middle Adulthood 12. Development in Late Adulthood 13. Looking Forward: Challenges and Opportunities for the Social Work Profession