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Anne Mills, Bournemouth University, UK
"It's really nice to come across a social work textbook covering all the behaviour theories and their integration within different areas of social work in such detail."
Nell Abramczuk, Social Work Student, Bangor University, UK
"This is one of the best books on behavioural sciences for social workers I have seen for a long time. It is up to the usual high standard of OU texts."
Gavin Bissell, University of Bradford, UK
"This book could be used for a range of social work modules from professional studies looking at social work methods and theory through to enabling students on placement to link suitable theory to human behaviour. It is a highly considered and comprehensive book which I will be recommending to students."
Rhiannon Jones, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
"This is an excellent introduction that provides just the right depth and is well applied to practice. Although not flashy it is clearly laid out."
David Shaw, Buckinghamshire New University, UK
"I've only just skimmed this book but will be putting in on my reading list for next year and will recommend to undergraduate students who start this module next week. It's accessible to undergraduates, comprehensive and consistently makes realistic links to practice issues."
Mandy Hagan, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
The capacity to observe, interpret and understand human behaviour is vital for effective social work practice. By choosing to enter a profession that requires high levels of astute observation and listening skills in the interpretation of people's behaviour, social work students have undertaken a demanding task.
Using a bio-psychosocial framework, this fascinating book provides a wide basis of perspectives on human behaviour on which to build understanding of and responses to people’s behaviours, along with an enhanced appreciation of some of the circumstances that shape behaviour.
Margarete Parrish covers the key theories of human growth and development in the context of social relationships, providing a frame of reference from which to explore various aspects of human behaviour. This is particularly relevant to students' preparedness to practice social work with complex populations, addressing factors such as:
- Attachment
- Developmental status
- Context
- Diversity
- Trauma
- Oppression
The book includes exercises, discussion questions and chapter summary points to help the reader further develop their understanding.
Social Work Perspectives on Human Behaviour is key reading for all social work students.
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The book is divided in three parts commencing with the biological dimensions of human behaviour, followed by the psychological- and lastly the social dimensions of behaviour.
Included in each part every topic is consistently discussed under the headings of the relevance to social work, historical background, key concepts and theories. To demonstrate the book's developmental orientation, every topic is concluded with a question section for the reader to reflect on acquired knowledge discussed in the sections. At the same time, the narrative frames of the existing theoretical ideas are conversed in such a way that they are meaningful and significant to the reader. Furthermore, the chosen method of arrangement of information is inimitable in the sense that it encourages the reader to take notice of the human interrelation of medical considerations and human behaviour. To name but a few, perspectives include the biological influences on behaviour, Freud's psychoanalytical theory, Erikson's developmental theory, humanist- and existentialist perspectives on behaviour and the systems theory. Based on up-to-date knowledge of current policy and practice, this book offers a thorough-going review of the place of social work in human behaviour. The author manages to elucidate the reason of the rather comprehensive inclusion of the medical- and developmental influences prior discussions of the psychological and social work dimensions which lead to a better understanding of the interaction thereof.
The author is an experienced practitioner and academic with an open mind and ensures that the concepts covered are chronological, accessible, credible and applicable for all who can relate to this subject matter.
This book is recommended for all social work teams, students and practitioners working in a wide array of related sciences.
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