Dimensions of Human Behavior: The Changing Life Course, 2 tomas

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SAGE, 2008 - 602 psl.
Organized around time, the Third Edition of Dimensions of Human Behavior: The Changing Life Course helps students understand the relationship between time and human behavior. Using a life course perspective, author Elizabeth D. Hutchison shows how the multiple dimensions of person and environment work together with dimensions of time to produce patterns in unique life course journeys. The Third Edition is updated and revised to respond to the rapidity of changes in complex societies.

New to the Third Edition

Examines our increasing global interdependence: The human life course is placed in global context.

Recognizes scientific advancements: Advances in neuroscience have been incorporated throughout the chapters.

Emphasizes group-based diversity: More content has been added on the effects of gender, race, ethnicity, social class, sexual orientation, and disability on life course trajectories.

Reorganizes family dynamics: Greater attention has been given to the role of fathers.

Reflects contemporary issues: New case studies, exhibits, and Web resources have been added to provide the most up-to-date information.

 

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A Life Course Perspective
1
The Suarez Family After September 11 2001
8
Major Themes of the Life Course Perspective
19
Strengths and Limitations of the Life Course Perspective
33
Conception Pregnancy and Childbirth
39
Conception Pregnancy and Childbirth
41
The Gerekes LateLife Pregnancy
45
Reproductive Genetics
54
Social Aspects of Adolescence
247
Spiritual Aspects of Adolescence
256
Implications for Social Work Practice
279
Young Adulthood
285
Physical Functioning in Young Adulthood
296
Social Development and Social Functioning
302
Risk Factors and Protective Factors in Young Adulthood
316
Key Ideas
323

Normal Fetal Development
67
Infancy and Toddlerhood
72
Risk and Protective Factors in Conception Pregnancy and Childbirth
76
Implications for Social Work Practice
91
Key Ideas
97
Infants and Toddlers in the Multigenerational Family
126
Protective Factors in Infancy and Toddlerhood
132
Key Terms
134
Early Childhood
139
Terris Terrible Temper
140
The Role of Play
154
Early Childhood in the Multigenerational Family
160
Implications for Social Work Practice
171
Key Ideas
177
Development in Middle Childhood
183
Middle Childhood
199
Middle Childhood and Formal Schooling
201
Special Challenges in Middle Childhood
209
Risk Factors and Protective Factors in Middle Childhood
221
Adolescence
227
Adolescence
229
Biological Aspects of Adolescence
233
Robert Johnson Enjoying Fatherhood at 48
327
Biological Changes and Physical and Mental Health in Middle Adulthood
336
Intellectual Changes in Middle Adulthood
345
Relationships in Middle Adulthood
353
Risk Factors and Protective Factors in Middle Adulthood
365
Key Ideas
371
Cultural Construction of Late Adulthood
379
Biological Changes in Late Adulthood
386
Psychological Changes in Late Adulthood
391
The Search for Personal Meaning
407
Implications for Social Work Practice
413
Key Ideas
419
What We Can Learn From Centenarians
427
Spirituality in Very Late Adulthood
435
Loss Grief and Bereavement
443
The Life Course Completed
449
References
453
Late Adulthood
497
Very Late Adulthood
504
IndexGlossary
543
About the Author
597
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Elizabeth D. Hutchison, MSW, PhD, received her MSW from the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis and her PhD from the University at Albany, State University of New York. She was on the faculty in the Social Work Department at Elms College from 1980 to 1987 and served as chair of the department from 1982 to 1987. She was on the faculty in the School of Social Work at Virginia Commonwealth University from 1987 to 2009, where she taught courses in human behavior and the social environment, social work and social justice, and child and family policy; she also served as field practicum liaison. She has been a social worker in health, mental health, aging, and child and family welfare settings. She is committed to providing social workers with comprehensive, current, and useful frameworks for thinking about human behavior. Her other research interests focus on child and family welfare. She lives in Reno, Nevada, where she is a hands-on grandmother and an activist on local justice issues.

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