Multidimensional Human Behavior in the Complex Social Environment: Decolonizing Theories for Social Work Practice - Softcover

Jemel P. Aguilar (author)|Elisabeth Counselman-Carpenter (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1793576866 ISBN 13: 9781793576866

Publisher: Cognella Academic Publishing, 2023

Synopsis

This book uniquely decolonises the structure of human behaviour in the social environment textbooks by starting with a discussion around marginalised populations and human development set within geopolitical context. The authors then cover relevant variations in development through a lens of historical and structural influences as well as unique biological, emotional, psychological, and/or environmental circumstances.

Unlike other HBSE textbooks that typically move from infant or micro-levels and then progress toward larger systems, this book starts with larger systems that shape marginalisation and human development as a context for understanding subsequent chapters in the text. Each chapter integrates the latest knowledge from neuroscience related to marginalised populations and its influence on human development. Chapters are linked to social work practice by framing how knowledge about marginalised populations, human development, and neuroscience can assist social workers in formulating engagement, assessment, intervention, and evaluation processes that maintains the dignity and worth of marginalised populations.

Designed to help deepen student's understanding of theory for social work practice as well as the practice of other helping professionals, this text instructs students on both theories and how to actually apply them in their work with client systems.

About this title

About the Author

Jemel P. Aguilar, Ph.D., LCSW, M.P.H is an associate professor of social work at Fordham University, where he teaches social work courses in research, community-engaged research, mental health practice, social work practice, and human behaviour in the social environment.

Elisabeth Counselman-Carpenter, Ph.D., LCSW is an associate professor of social work at Adelphi University, where she teaches courses on human behaviour, generalist and clinical practice, and collaborative behavioural health care. Her research focuses on post-traumatic growth, decreasing barriers to service provision in social work and medical settings, particularly with the LGBTQIA+ community, and online learning pedagogy.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cognella Academic Publishing
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1793576866
• ISBN 13: 9781793576866
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 344