This comprehensive text explores, compares, and contrasts both traditional and alternative paradigms in examining human behavior and the social environment.

Human Behavior and the Social Environment: Shifting Paradigms in Essential Knowledge for Social Work Practice provides readers with a variety of traditional and alternative perspectives on human services issues, including diversity, feminism, client empowerment, individual development, families, groups, organizations, and communities. The author includes new and updated coverage of spirituality, global issues, diversity/cultural competency, aging theory, disabilities, and the impact of technology and the Internet on human services, and reflects the spirit and intent of the new CSWE Educational Policies and Standards (EPAS).