Human Behavior Theory
Subtitle: a Diversity Framework
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780203789612
Subjects: Social work with minorities; Service social aux minorités
Description: "As American society becomes increasingly diverse, social workers must use a variety of human behavior frameworks to understand their clients' culturally complex concerns. This text applies specific human behavior theories to diversity practice. They show how human behavior theory can be employed in interventions in the life problems of diverse client populations at the individual, group, social network, and societal levels. Several groups are examined. They include: minority groups; ethnic groups; women; older adults; members of certain social classes affected by economic and educational (dis)advantage, especially those living in poverty; people with developmental disabilities, people of varying sexual and gender orientations, and religious groups. Case studies that illustrate social work practice in the area are highlighted. The case studies include Social Work Practice within a Diversity Framework; The Social Work Interview; Symbolic Interactionism: Social Work Assessment, Meaning, and Language; Erikson's Eight Stages of Development; Role Theory and Social Work Practice; A Constructionist Approach; Risk, Resilience and Resettlement; Addressing Diverse Family Forms; Small Group Theory; Natural Social Networks; Power Factors in Social Work Practice. This volume will be a fundament resource for practitioners and an essential tool for training."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1 Social Work Practice Within a Diversity Framework  -- Roberta R. Greene; title: chapter 2 A Diversity Framework for Human Behavior: Conceptual and Historical Reformulations  -- Roberta R. Greene; title: chapter 3 The Social Work Interview: Legacy of Carl Rogers and Sigmund Freud  -- Roberta R. Greene; title: chapter 4 Symbolic Interactionism: Social Work Assessment, Meanings, and Language  -- Roberta R. Greene Joan Ephross Saltman; title: chapter 5 Erikson's Eight Stages of Development: Different Lenses  -- Nancy P. Kropf Roberta R. Greene; title: chapter 6 Role Theory and Social Work Practice  -- Kathryn H. Thompson Roberta R. Greene; title: chapter 7 A Constructionist Approach With Diverse Populations  -- Robert Blundo Roberta R. Greene Paul Gallant; title: chapter 8 Social Learning Theory: Empirical Applications to Culturally Diverse Practice  -- Bruce A. Thyer; title: chapter 9 A Systems Approach: Addressing Diverse Family Forms  -- Roberta R. Greene Karen Frankel; title: chapter 10 Small Group Theory and Social Work Practice: Promoting Diversity and Social Justice or Recreating Inequities?  -- Charles D. Garvin Beth Glover Reed; title: chapter 11 Working With Natural Social Networks: An Ecological Approach  -- Judith S. Lewis Roberta R. Greene; title: chapter 12 Power Factors in Social Work Practice  -- Roberta R. Greene; title: chapter Epilogue: Power and the Social Work Profession -- Carol T. Tully.