Product Description

Help your students understand the mysteries of human behavior with Zastrow and Kirst-Ashman's text. Now available with a personalized online learning plan, this social work-specific book looks at lifespan through the lens of social work theory and practice. The authors use an empowerment approach to cover human development and behavior theories within the context of family, organizational, and community systems. Using a chronological lifespan approach, the authors present separate chapters on biological, psychological, and social impacts at the different lifespan stages with an emphasis on strengths and empowerment.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #37045 in Books
• Published on: 2006-06-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 696 pages

About the Author
Charles Zastrow, MSW and Ph.D., is currently Professor in the MSW program at George Williams College in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, and previously taught in the Social Work Department, University of Wisconsin–Whitewater for many years. He has worked as a practitioner in a variety of public and private social welfare agencies and has chaired 14 social work accreditation site visit teams for the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). He has served two terms as a commissioner on the Commission on Accreditation of CSWE. He is currently a member of the Council on Publications of CSWE. Dr. Zastrow is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in the State of Wisconsin. In addition to INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL WELFARE, Dr. Zastrow has written five other textbooks: THE PRACTICE OF SOCIAL WORK (Eighth Edition), SOCIAL WORK WITH GROUPS (Sixth Edition), SOCIAL PROBLEMS: ISSUES AND SOLUTIONS (Fifth Edition), UNDERSTANDING HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND THE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT (Seventh Edition; with Dr. Karen Kirst-Ashman), and YOU ARE WHAT YOU THINK: A GUIDE TO SELF-REALIZATION.

Karen K. Kirst-Ashman is a professor and former chairperson in the Social Work Department at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. She earned her BSW degree in 1972 and MSSW degree in 1973 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and her Ph.D. in Social Work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of six social work textbooks; numerous publications, articles, and reviews on social work and women's issues; and has served as a consulting editor on many social work journals. Dr. Kirst-Ashman was a board member of the CSWE from 1998 through 2001 and has served as a member of several CSWE accreditation site teams. She is certified as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in the State of Wisconsin and has been the recipient of the University Of Wisconsin-Whitewater Roseman Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Customer Reviews

My Review
There were no problems in ordering my book. Would buy from amazon anytime. The book is self is very interesting. The chapter are way too long but a good read.

Promoting a Political Agenda
This text exposes a political agenda citing "facts" without supporting evidence. Too many examples exist to enumerate but as an example p 206 states that the Justice system in America is an oxymoron since African Americans represent 12% of the population and comprise 50% of the incarcerated population. If this is due to a racist justice system the text certainly does not expose the underlying reasons; nor does it even cite a reference! It acknowledges, only parenthetically, that there is considerable debate as to the extent of racism vs. differential crime rates by race as accounting for the above-mentioned statistical discrepancy.

The text repeatedly emphasizes, and in fact almost singles out, that the United States is a racist country. The text, repeatedly, makes mention that Abraham Lincoln was a racist.

I would recommend 'Human Behavior in the Social Environment' by Longres as a far superior substitute.

This book should have no place in any respectable learning environment.