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

Essentials of Human Behavior by Elizabeth D. Hutchison and Leanne Wood integrates the key framework of time, person and environment into a single streamlined text for single or double semester courses. Drawn from Hutchison′s best-selling Dimensions of Human Behavior texts, this Fourth Edition is updated to address equity and inclusion, trauma and resilience, environmental justice, and gender identity and expression. With a multidimensional approach, it helps students connect human behavior theories and research to their applications in social work engagement, assessment, intervention, and evaluation across all levels of practice.

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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.

 

Leanne Wood received her MSW from the University at Albany and PhD from the School of Social Work at Virginia Commonwealth University. She began her career as a social worker in the child welfare systems in Washington, DC, and Virginia. After obtaining her PhD, she worked in the research and evaluation field in Baltimore. In 2003, she joined the Nazareth University Department of Social Work in Rochester, New York, as a full-time faculty member, teaching across the social work curriculum. She also began collaborating with the local homeless services provider network on a variety of initiatives, including a Photovoice project and the local Project Homeless Connect. She has been a yoga instructor and has facilitated workshops for diverse audiences on self-care. Recently, she has taken on the department chair role. She continues to teach and advise social work students and is particularly passionate about teaching the course “Theory and Human Development” to students representing a variety of professions within Nazareth’s College of Interprofessional Health and Human Services.