Dimensions of Human Behavior: Person and Environment (Series in Social Work)

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.

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.