ISBN:
9780231112802
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (1004 p)
Series Statement:
Foundations of Social Work Knowledge Series
Parallel Title:
Print version Human Behavior and Social Environments : A Biopsychosocial Approach
DDC:
155.9
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Online-Publikation
Abstract:
Human behavior is a subject so vast that it would seem to defy one's ability to comfortably and confidently grasp its varieties, nuances, shapes, and dynamics. But in this wide-ranging and comprehensive survey of the contexts of human behavior, Dennis Saleebey examines the different social science approaches to understanding the way humans react to and are affected by their environment.Using a biopsychosocial perspective, this book demonstrates that there are many paths of knowledge, many methods of inquiry, and many perspectives that can guide one's understanding of human behavior. Resilience
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half title; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Introduction; Philosophical Principles; Conceptual Frameworks; Integrative Themes; Paradigms, Postmodernism, and Possibilities; M and M Dialogue; Chapter 2. Meaning-Making; Self; Culture; Story, Connection, Ritual, and Myth; Conclusion; M and M Dialogue; Chapter 3. Strengths and Resilience; Strengths and Resilience: Images of Altruism and Humanity; Conclusion; M and M Dialogue; Chapter 4. Biopsychosocial Understanding; Human Nature and the Human Condition
Description / Table of Contents:
Genes and Experience: The Case of TemperamentThe Brain and Behavior: The Biopsychosocial View; Conclusion; M and M Dialogue; Chapter 5. Nature and Nurture, Neurons and Narratives: Putting It All Together; Nature and Nurture: How Necessary Are Parents?; Neurons and Narratives: A Biopsychosocial Understanding of Mental Illness; Conclusion; M and M Dialogue; Chapter 6. Theories: Part I; The Elements of Theory; Part/Whole Analysis; Psychodynamic Theory; M and M Dialogue; Chapter 7. Theories: Part II; Ecological Theory; Cognitive Theory; Radical/Critical Theory; Conclusion; M and M Dialogue
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 8. Person/Environment, Part I: Families-The Variety of UsThe Family and Society Today: What's Up?; What Are Families For?; What Is a Family?; Family Resilience; Conclusion; M and M Dialogue; Chapter 9. Person/Environment, Part II: Coming Into Being in the Family and Community; A Contextual Model of Family Transition and Adaptation; Becoming Partners and Being a Couple; A New Human Being Joins the Family; When Things Go Awry; Conclusion; M and M Dialogue; Chapter 10. Person/Environment, Part III: Growing Up in Family and Community; Middle Childhood: The Forgotten Years; Conclusion
Description / Table of Contents:
M and M DialogueChapter 11. Person/Environment, Part IV: Coming of Age in Family and Community; Sturm und Drang or The Romance of Risk?; Conclusion; M and M Dialogue; Chapter 12. Person/Environment, Part V: Maturing and Aging in Family and Community; Maturity: Love, Work, Connection, and Closure; Some Important Moments in Adult Life; Coming of (Older) Age in America; Conclusion; M and M Dialogue; Chapter 13. Reprise, Vision, and the Final Conversation; Reprise; So What Is the Good Life, Anyway?; Conclusion; The Final M and M Dialogue; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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