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Human Behavior in the Social Environment: A Multidimensional Perspective (with InfoTrac) | 
 enlarge | Authors: José B. Ashford, Craig Winston Lecroy, Kathy L. Lortie
Publisher: Brooks Cole
Category: Book
List Price: $119.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 5136
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 3
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 720
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.3
Dimensions (in): 10.2 x 8.2 x 1.3
ISBN: 0534642764
Dewey Decimal Number: 150
EAN: 9780534642761
ASIN: 0534642764
Publication Date: July 19, 2005
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Product Description
Ashford, LeCroy, and Lortie's ground-breaking book offers students a balanced, integrated introduction to human behavior in the social environment. Lively and comprehensive, this book succeeds by helping students connect foundation knowledge with practice concerns. Clarified through the introduction of study tables and concept maps (at the end of each discussion behavior in the development chapters), the authors look at biopsychosocial development across the life span using an integrative multidimensional approach, discussing integrative practice, theory, treatment, and services throughout. This multidimensional framework provides a concrete tool for the reader to assess human behavior from a perspective that truly reflects the values and knowledge base of the social work profession. Together, the book's solid coverage of foundation knowledge, integration of the biopsychosocial dimensions for assessing social functioning, its multidimensional framework, and its use of case studies to illuminate the applied aspects of HBSE content--along with the authors' consistent attention to diversity--successfully combine to give readers a meaningful, exciting experience.
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 Needs an editor January 18, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I had the misfortune of having to read this book in a Human Development course. This textbook is wordy, redundant, and overflowing with irrelevant detail. The writing is incomprehensible. There is a crippling lack of focus which defeats the purpose of any text--to guide a student through relevant material. A good editor would have rejected this book outright, or at least have gotten out a big pack of red pens!
 nice book November 10, 2006
This is a great book on humnan development. I have not finished it but so far for my class it is one of the best that I have seen and my undergraduate courses were in Human Development. I really like this book and the information in it.
The only textbook I've ever enjoyed October 11, 2006
I'm a first-semester MSW student. I don't have a background in social work or the social sciences, so I may be way off when I say that this is the most informative textbook that I've ever read. (Mind you, I'd stil rather be reading something by Howard Zinn or Jared Diamind.) Every page teaches me something new. If it has organizational problems, I haven't noticed, because reading it is so engrossing.
 Very poor text book December 2, 2004
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I'm in a MSW program and this text book was part of the reading material. For a text book, its poorly written. The book jumps from topic to topic and does not have a clear flow from one subject to anouther. Items are misplaced and the information is difficult to find. In my class of 25 student there was no one who was happy with this book.
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