Human Behavior and the Social Environment, Micro Level: Individuals and Families

by Katherine S. Van Wormer and Katherine Stuart van Wormer

Book Overview

While social work policy can be considered the what, and practice, the how, the study of human behavior is concerned with why. Why do people do the things they do? Why do individuals behave differently in groups than when alone? Why do some people become the victims of their lives while others who have endured tragedy become life's heroes?

Resilience across the life span is a new major theme of the second edition of the bestselling Human Behavior...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199740070
• ISBN13: 9780199740079
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 10.0"