The best-selling Dimensions of Human Behavior texts will soon be available in one volume! The essential contents from both Person and Environment and the Changing Life Course have been condensed and streamlined for single semester courses and BSW programs. The book will retain many of the hallmark features of the classic texts, such as the in-depth case studies, the theoretical application throughout each chapter, the focus on diversity and neuroscience, student margin notes, and implications for practice, however, the content has been carefully examined and streamlined. The book will present the key multidimensional framework of person, environment and time and then will examine each element across various chapters. The psychological, biological and spiritual person will be retained, many of the life course chapters will be condensed and the macro/environmental chapters will be reduced to three chapters.

Author Biography

Elizabeth D. Hutchison, MSW, PhD, received her MSW from the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis and her PhD from the University at Albany, State University of New York. She was on the faculty in the Social Work Department at Elms College from 1980 to 1987, and served as chair of the department from 1982 to 1987. She was on the faculty in the School of Social Work at Virginia Commonwealth University from 1987 to 2009, where she taught courses in human behavior and the social environment, social work and social justice, and child and family policy; she also served as field practicum liaison. She has been a social worker in health, mental health, aging, and child and family welfare settings. She is committed to providing social workers with comprehensive, current, and useful frameworks for thinking about human behavior. Her other research interests focus on child and family welfare. She currently lives in Rancho Mirage, California where she is active in environmental justice issues facing farm workers in East Coachella Valley.