Human Behavior and the Social Environment: Integrating Theory and Evidence-Based Practice (Springer Series on Social Work) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0826123430 ISBN 13: 9780826123435

Publisher: Springer Publishing, 2002

Synopsis

This comprehensive text offers a solid foundation for asssessment of human behavior in micro, mezzo, and macro settings. The editors offer practical and concrete consideration of how human behavior is affected in different systems: individual, biological, family, community, and organizations. These influences are reviewed in terms of implications for practice.

The book assembles selected readings that:


• provide a brief overview of each theoretical model
• discuss how empiricism can be applied to the model
• describe what methods, techniques, and interventions the model supports in order to change a client's behavior

About this title

About the Authors

John S. Wodarski, PhD, is Professor at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville's School of Social Work.

Sophia F. Dziegielewski, Ph.D., LCSW, is a Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Central Florida.

From the Back Cover

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This comprehensive text offers a solid foundation for asssessment of human behavior in micro, mezzo, and macro settings. The editors offer practical and concrete consideration of how human behavior is affected in different systems: individual, biological, family, community, and organizations. These influences are reviewed in terms of implications for practice. The book assembles selected readings that:
provide a brief overview of each theoretical model discuss how empiricism can be applied to the model describe what methods, techniques, and interventions the model supports in order to change a client's behavior "

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer Publishing
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0826123430
• ISBN 13: 9780826123435
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Wodarski PhD John S., Dziegielewski PhD LCSW Sophia F.