Human Behavior Theory and Social Work Practice (Modern Applications of Social Work)
“Another in a growing collection of books by social workers designed to summarize and clarify a variety of conceptual paradigms that purport to explain human behavior in its social context. The book is useful and timely and compares favorably with similar works… Upper-division undergraduates and graduate students.”—F. J. Peirce,Choice“This is the new edition of an established collection of critiques which identifies and explains frameworks for common human behavior theories applied in contemporary social work… Each critique contains its own glossary of terms for comprehension and application of the various theoretical approaches to clinical practice.”—Journal of Social Work“The teacher of human behavior theories for social work is faced with a daunting task—presenting a wide range of theories relating to micro-, meso-, and macrosystem levels in a thorough, comprehensive, systematic, and practice relevant way, and all in one year. There is a great need for textbooks that help accomplish this nearly impossible task… [This] book is worth consideration by social work educators, especially for courses dealing with individual, family, and group behavior within a social-ecological perspective. The book may also be  useful for practitioners who wish to refresh their familiarity with microfocused human behavior theories.”—Edward Canada,Social Work