Human Behavior in the Social Environment: A Multidimensional Perspective,
7th Edition

1. Introduction to Human Behavior in the Social Environment.
2. An Integrative Multidimensional Framework for Assessing Current and Developmental Concerns.
3. Pregnancy.
4. Infancy.
5. Early Childhood.
6. Middle Childhood.
7. Adolescence.
8. Emerging and Young Adulthood.
9. Middle Adulthood.
10. Late and Very Late Adulthood.
Epilogue: The Journey of Life.
Glossary.

• José B. Ashford

  José B. Ashford teaches the human behavior courses in the School of Social Work at Arizona State University and serves as a professor in the doctoral program in sociology. He is also an affiliate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Law and Behavioral Science, and Justice and Social Inquiry. Dr. Ashford is the principle investigator of the Community Justice Support Services grant, funded by the Maricopa County Human Services Department, and the Chief Research Consultant for the Office of the City of Phoenix Prosecutor. He testifies around the country as a social history and life course expert in the assessment of mitigating factors in capital murder cases, and is actively engaged with the Arizona Justice Project in examining the lives of juveniles serving life sentences. He has published widely in areas dealing with the assessment, classification, and treatment of special need offenders; forensic social work; mitigation of punishment; risk and needs assessment; and offender reentry.

• Craig Winston LeCroy

  Craig Winston LeCroy is a professor in the School of Social Work at Arizona State University. Dr. LeCroy has directed several projects for children and adolescents, including a Children's Bureau grant focused on home visitation for parents of young children, a National Institute of Mental Health Training Grant for emotionally disturbed children and adolescents, and several prevention projects including substance abuse prevention, teen pregnancy prevention, and Go Grrls, a primary prevention program for early adolescent girls. Professor LeCroy has published widely in the areas of home visitation children's mental health, social skills training with youth, and risk and needs assessment with juvenile offenders.

• Lela Rankin Rankin

  Lela Rankin Williams is an associate professor in the School of Social Work at Arizona State University. Dr. Williams has interdisciplinary training in psychology and human development and family studies. She regards cultural and familial relationships as critical influences on development from infancy through adolescence. She has collected, analyzed, and published data from several long-term longitudinal studies, as well as some community-based intervention studies, in the areas of infant-temperament, mother-infant bonding, parenting and parenting interventions, adolescent substance use and prevention, dating violence, juvenile desistance, and sexual education across the lifespan.

• A revision in the book's organization enhances the connection between human developmental knowledge and social work. A new introductory chapter offers insight into how key social work assumptions and values are integrated within current approaches to understanding human developmental processes: lifespan, life-course and strengths perspectives.

• Chapter two was revised to help students understand how to apply the book's integrative integrative multidimensional framework that guides students' understanding of social work theory and its implications for assessment of human behavior and social work practice across the lifespan.

• The authors introduce students to the following frameworks and theories: The social functioning framework, anti-oppressive frameworks, critical theory, critical race theory and order theories of human behavior. In addition, the role of intersectionality in addressing developmental outcomes and processes and the 4Ps method for completing a biopsychosocial formulation of a case.

• This edition includes new practice guidelines for specific issues in human development as well as new focus on sections on lived experiences, research and theory.

• New content on the differential effects of the pandemic and technology on various cohorts such as Generation Z, Millennials, and Generation X.

• The authors continue to emphasize applicability of social work principles -- a hallmark of the book since the first edition. Explicit exercises at the end of each developmental chapter comply with CSWE's 2022 competencies and practice behaviors. In addition, a revised second chapter devotes attention to helping students understand how to implement integrative-biopsychosocial principles of assessment.

• "Guidelines for Practice" sections highlight critical issues for social workers and link foundation knowledge to assessment, prevention, intervention, engagement and policy issues.

• "Focus On" sections reflect current CSWE guidelines by examining different voices and perspectives, including the life experiences of marginalized societal members, with a focus on multiculturalism and its effects on developmental considerations.

• "Personal Narratives" offer firsthand accounts of real-life experiences related to diversity issues such as racism, poverty, sexual orientation and ageism. Through these different voices, students gain a real-world flavor of the material discusse

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