Human Behavior and Social Environments : : A Biopsychosocial Approach / / Dennis Saleebey.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Saleebey, Dennis,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2001]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Series: Foundations of Social Work Knowledge Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (459 p.)

Human behavior is a subject so vast that it would seem to defy one's ability to comfortably and confidently grasp its varieties, nuances, shapes, and dynamics. But in this wide-ranging and comprehensive survey of the contexts of human behavior, Dennis Saleebey examines the different social science approaches to understanding the way humans react to and are affected by their environment.Using a biopsychosocial perspective, this book demonstrates that there are many paths of knowledge, many methods of inquiry, and many perspectives that can guide one's understanding of human behavior. Resilience (how we cope with trauma) and meaning-making (how we see and make sense of the world around us) provide the conceptual framework of the book. Saleebey examines a number of specific theories relevant to the biopsychosocial approach: part/whole analysis, psychodynamic theory, ecological theory, cognitive theory, and radical/critical theory. Human development is presented as a continuing interaction between individual, family, community, social institutions, and culture. Pedagogical devices to aid the student include chapter overviews, case studies, and meaning-making dialogues at the end of each chapter that pose questions for further thought.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER ONE. Introduction -- CHAPTER TWO. Meaning-Making -- CHAPTER THREE. Strengths and Resilience -- CHAPTER FOUR. Biopsychosocial Understanding -- CHAPTER FIVE. Nature and Nurture, Neurons and Narratives: Putting It All Together -- CHAPTER SIX. Theories: Part I -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Theories: Part II -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Person/Environment, Part I: Families-The Variety of Us -- CHAPTER NINE. Person/Environment, Part II: Coming into Being in the Family and Community -- CHAPTER TEN. Person/Environment, Part III: Growing Up in Family and Community -- CHAPTER ELEVEN. Person/Environment, Part IV: Coming of Age in Family and Community -- CHAPTER TWELVE. Person/Environment, Part V: Maturing and Aging in Family and Community -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN. Reprise, Vision, and the Final Conversation -- Index