Chris Beckett, Hilary Taylor

Human Growth and Development (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Our bestselling social work textbook is back again.

Taking you right back to basics, this book explains and analyses key theories in a really accessible way before going on to discuss, in detail, how theory can be incorporated into every day social work practice. Each chapter contains activities with step-by-step commentaries for discussion, self-analysis and critical reflection. The book very loosely follows the shape of a human life, beginning with a birth and ending with a death, but many of the chapters deal with ideas and topics that are relevant at many different stages of life, such as bereavement, attachment and learning. Its focus throughout is on psychosocial development - so psychological development within a social context - rather than physical development.

This book is by Chris Beckett, a social work academic and novelist who previously worked in child and family social work, and Hilary Taylor, a psychotherapist and former social work academic who used to work in the field of social work with adults. It is the go-to guide for anyone studying for careers in the helping professions, such as nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, teachers and counsellors.

It's also supported by an online case study resource. Follow the lives of people living in the fictional London Borough of Bexford, with 12 extended case studies to help you explore key issues and themes raised in the book as well as develop the skill of linking theory to practice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781529676280
• Artikelnr.: 69704421

Autorenporträt

Chris Beckett studied Psychology at Bristol University and qualified as a social worker at Bangor, North Wales, in 1980, going on to work for eighteen years as a social worker and social work manager, and then for fifteen years as a social work lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University and the University of East Anglia. He has had a parallel career for some time as a writer of fiction and is now a full-time writer. His novel, Dark Eden was the winner of the Arthur C. Clarke award for 2012.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: The Birth of a Human Being: What makes us who we are?
Chapter 2: Below the Surface: Unconscious processes and psychodynamic
insights
Chapter 3: A Secure Base: The importance of attachment
Chapter 4: Learning to think: The developing ability to reason
Chapter 5: Learning without Thinking: Ideas from behaviourism
Chapter 6: Boy or Girl?: The development of sex and gender
Chapter 7: Who Am I Going to Be? Adolescence, identity and change
Chapter 8: Acting like a Grown-up: Challenges of adulthood
Chapter 9: Access to Adulthood: Growing up with disability
Chapter 10 No One is an Island: Family systems and their life cycle
Chapter 11 It Takes a Village: The wider context
Chapter 12: Coming to a Conclusion: The experience of growing old
Chapter 13: That Good Night: Death, dying and bereavement