Social Work Education: Human Behavior and Social Environment - Encyclopedia of Social WorkThis entry provides a brief history of social work's changing knowledge base about human behavior and identifies the current knowledge base as multidimensional, multispherical, multicultural, multidirectional, multidisciplinary, and multitheoretical. It provides an overview of eight broad theoretical perspectives currently used in social work: systems, conflict, rational choice, social constructionist, psychodynamic, developmental, social behavioral, and humanistic perspectives. Each perspective is analyzed in terms of its central ideas, practice implications, and empirical evidence. The entry ends with a brief discussion of trends and directions.
Hutchison, E. Social Work Education: Human Behavior and Social Environment. Encyclopedia of Social Work. Retrieved 26 May. 2022, from https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199975839.013.616