Human Behavior Theory: A Diversity Framework

ISBN-13: 9780202360904 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 319 str.

Roberta R. Greene

Opis

In recent years, advocates for civil rights for minorities, women, and gays and lesbians have become more informed consumers of mental health services. As a result, social work practitioners need to prepare themselves to serve diverse constituencies for who previously held behavioral and cultural assumptions have proven not to be universally applicable. The purpose of Greene's book is to help students and practitioners better understand how social workers have used human behavior theories to more competently address variations in group and community membership within the social worker-client encounter.

Spis treści

1: Social Work Practice Within a Diversity Framework; 2: A Diversity Framework for Human Behavior: Conceptual and Historical Reformulations; 3: The Social Work Interview: Legacy of Carl Rogers and Sigmund Freud; 4: Symbolic Interactionism: Social Work Assessment, Meanings, and Language; 5: Erikson’s Eight Stages of Development: Different Lenses; 6: Role Theory and Social Work Practice; 7: A Constructionist Approach With Diverse Populations; 8: Social Learning Theory: Empirical Applications to Culturally Diverse Practice; 9: A Systems Approach: Addressing Diverse Family Forms; 10: Small Group Theory and Social Work Practice: Promoting Diversity and Social Justice or Recreating Inequities?; 11: Working With Natural Social Networks: An Ecological Approach; 12: Power Factors in Social Work Practice; Epilogue: Power and the Social Work Profession

O autorze

Roberta Greene