Human Behavior and Social Environments: A Biopsychosocial Approach

PrefaceIntroductionPhilosophical principlesConceptual frameworksIntegrative themesParadigms, postmodernism, and possibilitiesM & M dialogueMeaning-makingSelfCultureStory, connection, ritual and mythM & M dialogueStrengths and ResilienceStrengths and resilience: images of altruism and humanityPower in the people: Strengths and hopeM & M dialogueBiopsychosocial UnderstandingHuman nature and the human conditionGenes and experience: The case of temperamentThe brain and behavior: The biopsychosocial viewM & M dialogueNature and Nurture Neurons and NarrativesNature and nurture: How necessary are parents? NatureNurtureNeurons and narratives: A biopsychosocial understanding of mental illnessM & M dialoguesTheories: Part IThe elements of theoryPart/whole analysis Psychodynamic theoryCritique of psychodynamic theoryM & M dialoguesTheories: Part IIEcological theoryCritique of ecological theoryCognitive theoryCognitive theories and the environmentCritique of cognitive approachesRadical/critical theoryThe terms and conditions of radical/critical theoryCritique of radical/critical theoryConclusionM & M dialoguesFamilies: The Variety of UsThe family and society today: What's up? The family and communityWhat are families for? The care and feeding of infantsSocializationWhat is a family? Nuclear familyA note on social class and familySingle-parent familiesExtended familiesDual earner familiesRemarried familiesCouplesGay and lesbian familiesFamily resilienceConclusionM & M DialogueGrowing Up in the Community and World: Part IA contextual model of family transition and adaptationBecoming partners and being a coupleI love your genesA new human being joins the familyCulture: Africentric childrearingThe early processes that make us humanCulture, againWhere's dad? When things go awryBeing homelessConclusionM & M dialogueGrowing up in the Family and Community: Part IIMiddle childhood: The forgotten yearsMoral developmentPeers and groupsSiblingsSchool and family play and workMeaning and communityA note on ADHDConclusionM & M dialogueGrowing Up in the Family and Community: Part IIISturm and drang or "the romance of risk"Identity formation: Gender and cultureGender and identitySexualityRisks and resiliency: The family and communityViolence and the neighborhoodAdolescents and communityAdolescents and familyFamily and community and understanding and interveningConclusionM & M dialogueComing of Age and Old Age in Family and CommunityMaturity: Love, work, connection, and closureTheories of the adult development of maturityBorysenkoLevinsonContextual/constructionist viewGenerational differencesSome important moments in adult lifeLeaving homeBoomerang babiesLove and work togetherLove and mating: the coming together of body, mind and cultureWorkBecoming a citizen: family and communityComing of (older) age in AmericaSuccessful agingDying and deathConclusionM & M dialogueReprise, Vision and the Final ConversationRepriseSpiritualityThe ordinariness of everyday lifeMulticulturalismTechnologyThe global villageOrganizations: Culture and behaviorContextSo what is the good life, anyway? The heroic and the commonSome elements of a life worth livingConclusionThe final M & M dialogue