Changing Lives: Studies in Human Development and Professional Helping

Changing Lives: Studies in Human Development and Professional Helping
ISBN-10
0872497550
ISBN-13
9780872497559
Series
Changing Lives
Category
Psychology / General
Pages
427
Language
English
Published
1992
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press
Author
Martin Bloom

Description

Helping professionals must know the underlying structures and dynamics of human behavior and development if they are to offer efficacious and humane care. From across the broad spectrum of the social and health sciences, this anthology presents important recent writings about human experience. Changing Lives combines the presentation of basic information on human development with balanced descriptions of preventive and interventive methods of helping. The volume comprises forty-eight papers from a wide range of educators and health professionals - from psychology, sociology, and epidemiology to social work, nursing, and counseling - reflecting the multidisciplinary context in which the teaching of human development occurs. Bloom has included papers which provide illustrations of all the modes of helping - primary prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation; those which address the major theoretical orientations of our day - the ecological perspective, the behavioral approach, and psychodynamic theories; an "I-witness" report by a homeless woman; and clinical case studies and research reports. Each paper is self-contained and includes references for additional study. The readings are grouped around the eight elemental, or universal, human experiences: growth and development, communication, love/sexuality and pregnancy, and life and death. Each developmental phase, from infancy to old age, receives focused attention (as indicated by alternative tables of contents). Readers are introduced to the wide and penetrating scope of contemporary knowledge, and critical questions are raised about what helping professionals know and how this knowledge might best be applied in practice. -- from back cover.

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