Human Behavior and the Social Environment: Shifting Paradigms in Essential Knowledge for Social Work Practice PDF

Rating: (25 reviews) Author: Joe M. Schriver ISBN : 9780205329694 New from $16.41 Format: PDF

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This text compares and contrasts both traditional (dominant) and alternative paradigms or worldviews in examining human behavior and the social environment. Professor Schriver's text is innovative in its examination of new paradigms that include diversity, feminism, client empowerment, and other perspectives that are mandated by CSWE. Both traditional and alternative perspectives on individual development, families, groups, organizations, and communities are explored in the book. At each system level, attention is focused on the need for multiple perspectives that respect the vast diversity of persons and environments with whom social workers work. For example, in addition to traditional perspectives on individual development such as those of Freud, Kohlberg, Erikson, and Piaget, alternative perspectives on development are provided from feminist, multicultural, and gay-lesbian/bisexual perspectives such as Gilligan, Parham, Helms, and Cass. In each chapter, human diversity, oppression, social and economic justice, social work values and ethics, and populations-at-risk are an integral part of the content presented.

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• Series: Contributions to Economics
• Hardcover: 576 pages
• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon; 3 Sub edition (October 25, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0205329691
• ISBN-13: 978-0205329694
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.3 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds

Human Behavior and the Social Environment: Shifting Paradigms in Essential Knowledge for Social Work Practice PDF

This is a required text for one of my BSW classes and I wish I hadn't wasted my money purchasing it. The book is not constructed in a clear way, topics run together with no clear transitions, and is poorly written. The author will introduce a theory or define a term by quoting other authors' definitions. Not just one per term, but many for each new term explained. By the time you finish reading that paragraph you have multiple views on a definition, and none of them are clear. I have read over 40 college textbooks and this is by far the worst I have ever had the misfortune to read. The writing style of the author is so atrocious it appears to be a research paper gathered by a fifth-grader!

By T. Hufnagel

This book is as clear as mud. I read this book to better understand alternative paradigms that are all too often missing from others on this subject. Unfortunately, the author focused more on including everyone's perspective than making any idea clear.

By C. Bullman