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

by Elizabeth D. Hutchison

Essentials of Human Behavior: Integrating Person, Environment, and the Life Course by Elizabeth D. Hutchison presents an integration of social work′s time-honored person-in-environment approach to understanding human behavior with theory and research about the human life course.

Genres: Social Work, Nonfiction, Textbooks, School, Psychology

896 pages, Paperback

First published January 10, 2012

Reviews

[Olivia Snyder · Rating 4 out of 5]

First completed MSW program book. Very informative.

[Paige · Rating 2 out of 5]

There’s definitely beneficial information in this book and the progression across the aging continuum makes sense. But overall it’s pretty poorly written. For example, on more than one occasion a definition includes the word its defining. Like, huh? Expanded theories can read like utter word salads. Multiple times I turned to Google to track down the same information in a coherent and accessible format. My theory is this is such a tedious text to craft that no one else wants to actually write it and, thus, we have this mediocre product as the only option. Oh well.

[Ashley]

Long but not awful...

[Gale · Rating 4 out of 5]

Required reading for two masters social work classes. Relevant information and interesting.

[Alex Chiang · Rating 2 out of 5]

I read this entire textbook and all I got was one lousy credit for my Goodreads challenge.

[Sabra Ann Rasmussen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Was interesting, full of useful information & research