Empowerment Series Understanding Human Behavior and the Social Environment

• Author : Charles Zastrow,Karen K. Kirst-Ashman,Sarah L. Hessenauer
• Publisher : Cengage Learning
• Release : 31 January 2019

UNDERSTANDING HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND THE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT, 11th Edition, looks at the lifespan through the lens of social work theory and practice, covering human development and behavior theories within the context of individual, family, group, organizational, and community systems. Using a chronological lifespan approach, the book presents separate chapters on biological, psychological, and social impacts at the different lifespan stages with an emphasis on strengths and empowerment. Part of the Brooks/Cole Empowerment Series, this edition is up to date

• Author : Charles Zastrow,Karen Kay Kirst-Ashman
• Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
• Release : 24 May 2012

Zastrow and Kirst-Ashman's UNDERSTANDING HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND THE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT, 9E, International Edition looks at lifespan through the lens of social work theory and practice, covering human development and behavior theories within the context of family, organizational, and community systems. Using a chronological lifespan approach, the book presents separate chapters on biological, psychological, and social impacts at the different lifespan stages with an emphasis on strengths and empowerment. As part of the Brooks/Cole Empowerment Series, this edition is completely

• Author : Charles Zastrow
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 11 August 2022

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 11 August 2022

• Author : Katherine S. Van Wormer,Fred H. Besthorn,Thomas Keefe
• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• Release : 11 August 2022

Each person is a unique individual, yet we all are also defined by groups - those we belong to and those we are excluded from, voluntarily or involuntarily. In the second half of the Human Behavior and the Social Environment sequence, Katherine van Wormer, Fred Besthorn, and Thomas Keefe take a stimulating new approach to exploring this macro view of humanity and demonstrating how each component of society, from the single person to the sprawling organization, is part of a

• Author : Jose B. Ashford,Craig Winston LeCroy,Lela Rankin Williams
• Publisher : Cengage Learning
• Release : 05 December 2016

This lively, comprehensive introduction to human behavior in the social environment offers an integrative approach to biopsychosocial case formulations of current and developmental human behavior concerns. The sixth edition builds on prior efforts in promoting integrative assessments by adopting a specific method for completing case formulations that students apply to case studies in the book's developmental chapters. This innovation provides students with a bridge to the core competencies and recommended practice behaviors outlined in the 2015 Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards (

• Author : Charles Zastrow,Karen Kay Kirst-Ashman
• Publisher : Cengage Learning
• Release : 11 August 2022

In this best-selling text BY social workers and FOR social workers, Charles Zastrow and Karen K. Kirst-Ashman, nationally prominent social work educators and authors, guide studetns in assessing and evaluating how individuals function within families, groups, organizations and communities during the key stages of the human life span. Zastrow, a member of the CSWE Commission on Accreditation, and Kirst-Ashman, a CSWE Board member, incorporate the most recent CSWE curriculum recommendations throughout. Using an effective, chronological life-span approach, the authors present

• Author : Ralph E. Anderson
• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• Release : 11 August 1990

• Author : Katherine van Wormer,Fred H. Besthorn
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 11 October 2010

A timely revision in this global age, Human Behavior and the Social Environment, Macro Level develops a sophisticated and original view of the cultural, global, spiritual, and natural worlds that people inhabit, and the impact of these worlds on human behavior. Its major new theme, sustainability, emerges as a key characteristic of contemporary practice. What is sustainable social work? What are the characteristics of a sustainable community? How is the present exploitation of environmental resources unsustainable for future generations? Following

• Author : Karen K. Kirst-Ashman,Charles H. Zastrow
• Publisher : Burnham
• Release : 01 March 1990

• Author : Kirst-ashman Zastrow
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 30 June 2006

• Author : John S. Wodarski, PhD,Sophia F. Dziegielewski, PhD, LCSW
• Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
• Release : 01 April 2002

This comprehensive text offers a solid foundation for asssessment of human behavior in micro, mezzo, and macro settings. The editors offer practical and concrete consideration of how human behavior is affected in different systems: individual, biological, family, community, and organizations. These influences are reviewed in terms of implications for practice. The book assembles selected readings that: provide a brief overview of each theoretical model discuss how empiricism can be applied to the model describe what methods, techniques, and interventions the

• Author : Irl Carter
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 11 August 2022

"Since the publication of the first edition of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, several generations of students have successfully used this classic text, which takes a social systems approach to human behavior. This systems approach is still widely accepted in the human services disciplines, including social work, education, nursing, psychology, and in human services programs themselves. Its ideas have become the organizing framework for curriculum, as well as fruitful sources for new applications of theory and practice. Among the

• Author : Jose B. Ashford,Craig Winston LeCroy
• Publisher : Cengage Learning
• Release : 15 February 2012

This lively, comprehensive introduction to human behavior in the social environment offers a multidimensional approach to the topic, with discussion of integrative practice, theory, treatment, and services as well as matters pertaining to diversity addressed throughout the text. The text provides solid coverage of foundation knowledge, integrates the biopsychosocial dimensions for assessing social functioning, and offers case studies to illuminate the applied aspects of the content. Furthermore, as part of the Brooks/Cole Empowerment Series, the fifth edition thoroughly integrates

• Author : Bruce A. Thyer,Catherine N. Dulmus,Karen M. Sowers
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release : 23 July 2012

An accessible and engaging guide to the study of human behavior in the social environment, covering every major theoretical approach Providing an overview of the major human behavioral theories used to guide social work practice with individuals, families, small groups, and organizations, Human Behavior in the Social Environment examines a different theoretical approach in each chapter—from its historical and conceptual origins to its relevance to social work and clinical applications. Each chapter draws on a theoretical approach to foster