Essentials of Human Behavior : Integrating Person, Environment, and the Life Course

Hutchison, Elizabeth D.; Charlesworth, Leanne Wood (CON); Cummings, Cory (CON); Gilson, Stephen French (CON)

ISBN 10: 1483377725 / ISBN 13: 9781483377728

Published by SAGE Publications, Inc, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Essentials of Human Behavior : Integrating Person, Environment, and the Life Course
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1483377725
• ISBN 13: 9781483377728
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

Essentials of Human Behavior combines Elizabeth D. Hutchison’s two-volume Dimensions of Human Behavior to present a multidimensional framework for understanding human behavior. Integrating person, environment, and the life course, this best-selling text leverages its hallmark case studies and balanced breadth and depth of coverage to help readers apply theory and general social work knowledge to unique practice situations. Now in four color and available with an interactive eBook, the Second Edition features a streamlined organization, the latest research, whiteboard animations (view sample), and original SAGE video to provide the most engaging introduction available to human behavior.

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About the Author

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.