From the bestselling author of the two-volume Dimensions of Human Behavior comes the new single-volume text, Essentials of Human Behavior: Integrating Person, Environment, and the Life Course . Elizabeth D. Hutchison and contributing authors present an integration of social work′s time-honored person-in-environment approach to understanding human behavior with theory and research about the human life course. The book incorporates powerful case studies into knowledge based on scientific inquiry, provides a global perspective, emphasizes issues of diversity and oppression, analyzes the impact of new technologies on human behavior, and integrates recent neuroscience research. The text addresses not just the person-in-environment construct but also the biological, psychological and spiritual person, as well as the cultural and physical environment, institutions, organizations, communities, and small groups. Explore the patterns produced when the dimensions of person and environment meet the dimension of time to create unique life course journeys. Comprehensive review of life course; outstanding case studies with thought provoking questions -- Carol Drolen Published On: 2012-03-07 Elizabeth D. Hutchison received her MSW from the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis and her PhD from the University at Albany, State University of New York. She was on the faculty in the social work department at Elms College from 1980 to 1987 and was chair of the department from 1982 to 1987. She was on the faculty in the School of Social Work at Virginia Commonwealth University from 1987 to 2009, where she taught courses in human behavior and the social environment, social work and social justice, and child and family policy; she also served as field practicum liaison. She has been a social worker in health, mental health, aging, and child and family welfare settings and engaged in volunteer work with incarcerated women and environmental justice for farm workers in the Coachella Valley of California. She is committed to providing social workers with comprehensive, current, and useful frameworks for thinking about human behavior. Her other research interests focus on child and family welfare. She lives in Reno, Nevada, where she enjoys hiking around Lake Tahoe and being a hands-on grandmother to two humans and one dog. She collaborates with the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Northern Nevada on local social, racial, economic, and environmental justice issues.   Used Book in Good Condition