Human Behavior Theory: A Diversity Framework

ISBN-13: 9780202363165 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 284 str.

Roberta Greene; Nancy Kropf

Opis

As American society becomes increasingly diverse, social workers must use a variety of human behavior frameworks to understand their clients' culturally complex concerns. Th is text applies specifi c human behavior theories to diversity practice. They show how human behavior theory can be employed in interventions in the life problems of diverse client populations at the individual, group, social network, and societal levels.

Spis treści

1. Defining Social Work Practice within a Diversity Framework [Roberta R. Greene and Nancy P. Kropf] 2. The Social Work Interview: Legacy of Carl Rogers and Sigmund Freud [Roberta R. Greene] 3. Symbolic Interactionism: Social Work Assessment, Language and Meaning [Roberta R. Greene, Joan Ephross Saltman, Harriet Cohen, and Nancy P. Kropf] 4. Erikson’s Eight Stages of Development: Different Lenses [Nancy P. Kropf and Roberta R. Greene] 5. Role Theory and Social Work Practice [Kathryn H. Thompson and Roberta R. Greene] 6. A Social Constructionist Approach with Diverse Populations [Robert Blundo, Roberta R. Greene, and Paul Gallant] 7. Risk, Resilience, and Resettlement [Rowena Fong and Roberta R. Greene] 8. A Systems Approach: Addressing Diverse Family Forms [Roberta R. Greene, Nancy P. Kropf, and Karen Frankel] 9. Small Group Theory and Social Work: Promoting Diversity and Social Justice or Recreating Inequities [Beth Glover Reed, Roberta M. Ortega, and Charles Garvin] 10. Working with Natural Social Networks: An Ecological Approach [Judith S. Lewis and Roberta R. Greene] 11. Power Factors in Social Work Practice [Roberta R. Greene] Index.