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

by Elizabeth D. Hutchison, Leanne Wood Charlesworth

Essentials of Human Behavior combines Elizabeth D. Hutchison’s two best-selling Dimensions of Human Behavior volumes into a single streamlined volume for understanding human behavior. The text presents a multidimensional framework integrating person, environment, and time to show students the dynamic, changing nature of person-in-environment. In this Third Edition, Hutchison is joined by new co-author Leanne Wood Charlesworth, who uses her practice and teaching experience to help organize the book’s cutting-edge research and bring it into the classroom. The text will thoroughly support students′ understanding of human behavior theories and research and their applications to social work engagement, assessment, intervention, and evaluation across all levels of practice.   This title is accompanied by a complete teaching and learning package.

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

768 pages, Kindle Edition

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