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

Hutchison, Elizabeth D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1483377725 ISBN 13: 9781483377728

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2016

Synopsis

Essentials of Human Behavior combines Elizabeth D. Hutchison’s two-volume Dimensions of Human Behavior to present a multidimensional framework for understanding human behavior. Now available with an interactive eBook, the Second Edition features streamlined organization, the latest research, and original SAGE video to provide the most engaging introduction available to human behavior.

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About the Author

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.

 

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1483377725
• ISBN 13: 9781483377728
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 672