Human Behavior and the Social Environment: Shifting Paradigms in Essential Knowledge for Social Work Practice (5th Edition) [Paperback]

Joe M. Schriver (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 20, 2010 | ISBN-10: 0205520979 | ISBN-13: 978-0205520978 | Edition: 5

Human Behavior and the Social Environment, 5/e, explores, compares, and contrasts both traditional and alternative models in examining human behavior and the social environment. 

 

This text is part of the Connecting Core Competencies Series, designed to guide students in becoming skilled at the Council on Social Work's core competencies. Each chapter reflects and integrates the latest CSWE competency standards (EPAS). End-of-chapter assessment reinforces this integration, and MySocialWorkLab provides activites and supports the mastery of CSWE's core competencies through activities, tests,  an extensive library of videos and cases, and much more.

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From the Back Cover

Key Benefit: This is a revision of a book that was the first to thoroughly integrate new perspectives into the traditional Human Behavior and Social Environment field. Researchers are constantly looking for new information on topics like feminism, creativity, religion, multiple intelligences, violence, technology, etc. Key Topics: This book meets all new Council on Social Work Education standards for providing content on diversity, social justice, and oppressed groups. It also includes information on traditional and alternative paradigms, cultural competence, development, intelligence, and more. Market: Social Workers and family therapists. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

About the Author

Joe M. Schriver is the founding Director of the University of Arkansas School of Social Work. He is currently writing and publishing in the areas of Human Behavior and the Social Environment, social welfare history (social and economic justice), multicultural issues in social work education, and a Multi-System Life Course model for MSW education. He recently published the 5th edition of his book, Human Behavior and the Social Environment: Shifting Paradigms in Essential Knowledge for Social Work Practice. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Baccalaureate Social Work. Schriver has served on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Baccalaureate Social Work Program Directors, the Board of Directors of the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) and on the Commission on Educational Policy of the CSWE. He teaches in the areas of Human Behavior and the Social Environment, Community Practice, and Global Social and Economic Justice and Oppression.

Product Details

• Paperback: 576 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 5 edition (January 20, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0205520979
• ISBN-13: 978-0205520978
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7.9 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #267,171 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Talking in Circles, January 19, 2006

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C. Bullman (Baltimore, MD USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Human Behavior and the Social Environment: Shifting Paradigms in Essential Knowledge for Social Work Practice (4th Edition) (Paperback)

This book is as clear as mud. I read this book to better understand alternative paradigms that are all too often missing from others on this subject. Unfortunately, the author focused more on including everyone's perspective than making any idea clear.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Waste of time and money, March 12, 2007

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T. Hufnagel (Mount Horeb, WI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Human Behavior and the Social Environment: Shifting Paradigms in Essential Knowledge for Social Work Practice (4th Edition) (Paperback)

This is a required text for one of my BSW classes and I wish I hadn't wasted my money purchasing it. The book is not constructed in a clear way, topics run together with no clear transitions, and is poorly written. The author will introduce a theory or define a term by quoting other authors' definitions. Not just one per term, but many for each new term explained. By the time you finish reading that paragraph you have multiple views on a definition, and none of them are clear. I have read over 40 college textbooks and this is by far the worst I have ever had the misfortune to read. The writing style of the author is so atrocious it appears to be a research paper gathered by a fifth-grader!

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The worst text I had in my entire BSW program, June 11, 2006

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C. Crowson (Arkansas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Human Behavior and the Social Environment: Shifting Paradigms in Essential Knowledge for Social Work Practice (4th Edition) (Paperback)

This book was extremely difficult to understand. Full of big complicated terms that could have been said in simply easy to understand words. If all my texts had been like this, I'd never have made it through school. Not at all appropriate for undergrad work. It's the only text I sold back, and was glad to get rid of it. A total waste of money. I had to buy another HBSE book just to figure out what this one was trying to say.