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Empowerment Series: Human Behavior in the Social Environment: A Multidimensional Perspective, 6th Edition

José B. Ashford, Craig W. LeCroy, Lela Rankin

  • Copyright 2018
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Empowerment Series: Human Behavior in the Social Environment: A Multidimensional Perspective 6th Edition by José B. Ashford/Craig W. LeCroy/Lela Rankin
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This lively, comprehensive introduction to human behavior in the social environment offers an integrative approach to biopsychosocial case formulations of current and developmental human behavior concerns. The sixth edition builds on prior efforts in promoting integrative assessments by adopting a specific method for completing case formulations that students apply to case studies in the book's developmental chapters. This innovation provides students with a bridge to the core competencies and recommended practice behaviors outlined in the 2015 Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards (EPAS) set by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE), thus helping them connect foundation knowledge with practice concerns. Guidelines for practice and relevant assessment tools are identified for specific life tasks and for each phase of biopsychosocial development. This edition also offers concrete methods for translating developmental research to assessment practices.

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José B. Ashford

José B. Ashford is a professor of social work, law and science at Arizona State University, where he is also an affiliate professor of criminology, criminal justice and sociology. Dr. Ashford is an affiliate faculty member in applied social sciences at the Sapienza University of Rome in the Department of Social Sciences and Economics. He testifies around the country about human development issues as a social history and life course expert in the assessment of mitigating factors in capital murder and juvenile lifer cases. He directs the joint graduate certificate in the School of Social Work with the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice in criminal sentencing and sentencing advocacy, and his research lab is at the Arizona Justice Project at Sandra Day O’Conner College of Law. He has published widely in areas dealing with the assessment, classification, and treatment of special need offenders; forensic social work; mitigation of punishment; and sentencing juvenile homicide offenders.

Craig W. LeCroy

Dr. Craig LeCroy is an elected fellow in the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare and the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology of the American Psychological Association. He has directed several projects for children and adolescents, including a Children's Bureau grant focused on home visitation for parents of young children, a National Institute of Mental Health Training Grant for children with mental disorders, and several prevention projects including substance abuse prevention, teen pregnancy prevention, and Go Grrrls, a primary prevention program for early adolescent females. Professor LeCroy has published widely in the areas of home visitation in children's mental health, social skills training with youth, and risk and needs assessment with juvenile offenders. He is the author of 14 books, including Handbook of Evidence Based Treatment Manuals for Children and Youth, Case Studies with Children, Adolescents and Families, and First Person Accounts of Mental Illness and Recovery.

Lela Rankin

Lela Rankin is a professor in the School of Social Work at Arizona State University. Dr. Rankin has interdisciplinary training in psychology and human development and family studies. She regards cultural and familial relationships as critical influences on development from infancy through adulthood. She has collected, analyzed and published data from several long-term longitudinal studies and community-based intervention studies in the areas of infant-temperament, mother-infant bonding, parenting and parenting interventions, adolescent substance use and prevention, dating violence, juvenile desistance and sexual education across the lifespan.

What's New

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  • A revision in the book's organization enhances the connection between human developmental knowledge and social work. A new introductory chapter offers insight into how key social work assumptions and values are integrated within current approaches to understanding human developmental processes: lifespan, life-course, and strengths perspectives. In addition, an entire chapter (Chapter 2) is devoted to helping students understand how to apply the book's integrative multidimensional framework to assess current problems and how those problems developed over time.
  • The authors introduce the 4Ps method for completing a biopsychosocial formulation of a case.
  • This edition includes new practice guidelines for specific issues in human development as well as new content on emerging adulthood and very late adulthood.
  • New co-author Lela Rankin Williams brings her expertise in infancy and early childhood development to the text.
  • Additional graphs and materials simplify complex topics and enhance the acquisition of relevant information.
  • MindTap ®, an online learning experience built on the book's content, is available with this text. MindTap guides you through your course by combining readings, multimedia, applied activities, and quizzes into a learning path. Each chapter utilizes realistic videos to illustrate skills and concepts in action, followed by questions that give you practice evaluating and thinking critically about what you viewed.

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  • The authors continue to emphasize applicability of social work principles -- a hallmark of the book since the first edition. Explicit exercises at the end of each developmental chapter comply with CSWE's 2015 competencies and practice behaviors. In addition, a new Chapter 2 devotes attention to helping students understand how to implement integrative-biopsychosocial principles of assessment.
  • The authors' multidimensional framework guides students' understanding of social work theory and its implications for assessment of human behavior and social work practice across the lifespan.
  • "Guidelines for Practice" sections highlight critical issues for social workers and link foundation knowledge to assessment, prevention, intervention, engagement, and policy issues.
  • "Focus On" sections reflect current CSWE guidelines by examining different voices and perspectives, focusing on multiculturalism and narrative.
  • "Personal Narratives" offer firsthand accounts of real-life experiences related to diversity issues such as racism, poverty, sexual orientation, and ageism. Through these different voices, students gain a real-world flavor of the material discussed.

Table of Contents

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1. Introduction to Human Behavior in the Social Environment.
2. An Integrative Multidimensional Framework for Assessing Current and Developmental Concerns.
3. Pregnancy.
4. Infancy.
5. Early Childhood.
6. Middle Childhood.
7. Adolescence.
8. Emerging and Young Adulthood.
9. Middle Adulthood.
10. Late and Very Late Adulthood.
Epilogue: The Journey of Life.
Glossary.

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