Human Behavior in the Social Environment I

Catalog description

A study of human behavior from a person-in-environment perspective. The course is designed to help the student recognize the unique challenges confronting individuals and families at both the micro and macro levels. Special emphasis will be placed on understanding the relationship between the individual and various systems impacting the individual including the social, psychological, and spiritual-cultural systems. Adaptive strategies that people employ to cope with adversity will be examined. Examination of a strength-based, problem-solving approach, which constitutes the assessment phase of generalist practice at the micro level, will be emphasized as well. This course will consider the life development stages from birth through adolescence. Offered fall term each year. Three semester hours.