Human Growth and Development: An Introduction for Social Workers

ISBN-13: 9781138304093 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 374 str.

John Sudbery; Andrew Whittaker

Opis

This fully revised and expanded second edition of this introductory text for social workers provides a knowledge base about human development from conception to death and is packed with real-life case studies and useful pedagogy. Great for revision, there is a student-friendly reference section with glossary and overviews of key theories.

Spis treści

List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Beginnings; 2 A secure base; 3 The developing child; 4 Transitions and adolescence; 5 Living independently; 6 Sex, love, work and children; 7 Maturity and some of its hazards; 8 Adulthood and ageing; 9 Dying, grief and mourning; 10 Fitting the pieces together; \Essential background; 1 The principles of heredity; 2 Attachment theory; 3 Bronfenbrenner’s ecological model; 4 Psychoanalytic theories; 5 Piaget’s theory of cognitive development; 6 Erikson’s psychosocial theory of personality; 7 The humanistic models of Maslow and Rogers; 8 Learning and behavioural models; 9 Models of ageing: social disengagement theory, activity theory, feminist perspectives and political economy theory; 10 Three approaches to loss and grief; Glossary; Bibliography; Index