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Written for students training for careers in the helping professions, this Fourth Edition covers all the essential topics central to understanding people whether they are clients, service users, patients or pupils. Following the shape of a human life, beginning with birth and ending with death, it combines theoretical concepts and reflective learning to help your students develop an understanding of what makes us grow and change over our lives.
The NEW Online Case Study Resource - Tangled Webs
Now you and your students can explore key issues and themes raised in the book and develop the skill of linking theory to practice with free access to a new online case study resource. By following the lives of people living in the fictional London Borough of Bexford, this series of interlinked and extended case studies will allow your students to explore complex situations, much as they might do as practitioners in their working lives, and consider what ideas about Human Growth and Development might inform their thinking and practice.
List of contents
Chapter 1: The Birth of a Human Being: What makes us who we are?
Chapter 2: The Balancing Act: Psychodynamic insights
Chapter 3: A Secure Base: The importance of attachment
Chapter 4: The Emergence of Reason: The developing ability to understand
Chapter 5: Making Connections: Ideas from behaviourism
Chapter 6: Who Am I Going to Be? Adolescence, identity and change
Chapter 7: Acting like a Grown-up: Challenges of adulthood
Chapter 8: Access to Adulthood: Growing up with a disability
Chapter 9: No Man is an Island: Family systems and their life cycle
Chapter 10: It Takes a Village: A sociological perspective
Chapter 11: Coming to a Conclusion: Dimensions of old age
Chapter 12: That Good Night: Death, dying and bereavement
About the author
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.
Summary
An accessibly written bestselling introduction to emotional, psychological, intellectual and social development throughout the lifespan now with online case study resource.
Report
To comprehend applied theory, social work students need clear explanations and illustrative real-world examples. Beckett and Taylor successfully achieve this throughout their book and online content. Indeed, the addition of the online material Tangled Webs is a stroke of brilliance. Real lives are complex and interconnected; and this is expounded in the narrative of a fictional community, presented from diverse perspectives.
Lesley Deacon