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“Haight and Taylor have written a very important text that explains how ecological systems interact with development across the life span. This text provides unflinching reports of how poverty affects many life domains and refrains from pathologizing individuals for the consequence of poverty.

— Marilyn Lewis, The Ohio State University

“The authors did an amazing job of offering a coherent framework that students should be able to understand and ‘hang information on.’”

— Mary Ann Clute, Eastern Washington University

“The writing in this text is refreshingly simple and straightforward and remarkably synthetic.”

— Michael Hayes, Providence College

HUMAN BEHAVIOR FOR SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE
A Developmental-Ecological Framework
Wendy L. Haight, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Edward H. Taylor, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus

Looking for a new approach to HBSE?

Professors Haight and Taylor offer social work professors a new way to integrate the social work curricula. Their approach ties human behavior to practice to give students a stronger and more grounded base for their education and their professional practice.

Human Behavior for Social Work Practice offers a fresh approach to this area of the social work curricula by giving students a framework for critical thinking and problem-solving. This book is truly oriented toward practice, unlike other HBSE textbooks. This integrated orientation benefits social work students by giving them strategies they can use in their careers as they face evolving social problems.

This innovative book uses a developmental-ecological approach to match issues affecting social workers and their clients, including poverty, drug use, substance abuse, violence, and international social work, with portions of the life span, helping to tie theory to practice in a new way.

Lyceum Books is glad to provide a sample syllabus to help you integrate this new text into your curriculum.

• Developmental-ecological framework integrates biological, social, cultural-historical, and psychological aspects of each life stage and featured topic.
• Interviews with seasoned practitioners highlight real-life experiences and introduce a variety of policy contexts.
• Textboxes present and discuss social issues such as substance abuse, poverty, and violence as they change over the life span.
• Glossary provides easy reference to key concepts introduced in the text.
• Resources provided at the end of each chapter offer text- and Web-based avenues for supplementary information and paper preparation ideas.

Contents

Preface

1.  A Developmental-Ecological Framework
2.  Social Work with Infants and Young Children:
	Attachment Relations in the Family
3.  Social Work with Children in Middle Childhood:
	Spiritual Development in the Community
4.  Social Work with Adolescents:
	Mentoring in Schools
5.  Social Work with Young Adults:
	Professional Development and Multicultural Education in Schools of Social Work
6.  Social Work with Midlife Adults in Mental Health Contexts:
	Understanding and Treating Depression
7.  Medical Social Work with Older Adults:
	Alzheimer’s Disease
8.  Conclusion

Glossary           
Index           

*Chapters 2 and 4 are coauthored with Susan A. Cole, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

About the Authors

Wendy L. Haight (PhD, University of Chicago) is associate professor and PhD program director at the University of Illinois School of Social Work at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of African American Children at Church: A Sociocultural Perspective and co-author of Raise Up a Child: Human Development in an African American Family.

2005, Paper, 268 Pages, ISBN 978-0-925065-91-9, Price $39.95