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. 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
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. 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
