7th Edition

Human Behavior in the Social Environment Perspectives on Development and the Life Course

By Anissa Rogers Copyright 2025
582 Pages 43 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

582 Pages 43 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

582 Pages 43 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

Human Behavior in the Social Environment: Perspectives on Development and the Life Course returns for a seventh edition to provide students with an expansive overview of the major theories and issues related to human behavior and the social environment that are important to understand for professional practice across a variety of cases and contexts. Maintaining its clarity and cohesion, this... Read more

1. Human Behavior and the Social Work Profession  2. Lenses for Conceptualizing Problems and Interventions: The Person in the Environment  3. Lenses for Conceptualizing Problems and Interventions: Biopsychosocial Dimensions  4. Lenses for Conceptualizing Problems and Interventions: Sociocultural Dimensions  5. Lenses for Conceptualizing Problems and Interventions: Social Change Dimensions  6. Pre-Pregnancy and Prenatal Issues  7. Development in Infancy and Early Childhood  8. Development in Middle Childhood  9. Development in Adolescence  10. Development in Early Adulthood  11. Development in Middle Adulthood  12. Development in Late Adulthood  13. Looking Forward: Challenges and Opportunities for the Social Work Profession 

Biography

Anissa Taun Rogers is a licensed clinical social worker with more than 25 years of higher education experience. She currently serves as Professor in the Department of Social Work at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. She is also chair of the MSW program. She has served as the director of the Social Work Program and as the chair of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences and co-director of Gender and Women Studies at the University of Portland and Associate Dean of the Palm Desert Campus of California State University, San Bernardino.