Humn Behvr & The Soc Environment II

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As a component of preparing students for clinical practice in an urban, multicultural and diverse environment, the second semester of the one-year (two-semester) HBSE course examines the person-in situation matrix with a specific focus on diversity. This semester will focus on infancy through older adulthood. The developmental life course perspective upon which this course is based posits that individuals develop within a series of relationships that evolve across time. These relationships and the individual experience a reciprocal influence, each one impacting the other. This interconnected set of relationships is situated at a historical time and cultural location that simultaneously shapes the individual, and that the individual shapes, as well. This course contributes to the foundation knowledge necessary for the emerging self-awareness of the student-practitioner. The overall objective of HBSE is to enhance our ability to make conceptual linkages between multiple explanatory formulations of the person-environment configuration, paying particular attention to human diversity and human development.