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Book review: Understanding human development:a multi-dimensional approach (2nd ed.)

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posted on 2012-01-01, 00:00 authored by Selma MacfarlaneSelma Macfarlane
Book review: This book has much to offer social work and human services students. It covers many key theories, ideas, and debates relevant to a wide range of practice fields in a comprehensive, clearly organised, and engaging fashion. The author proposes, as on overarching premise, a “multidimensional” approach to understanding lifespan development and experiences of trauma, stress, and grief, as well as responses of adaptation and resilience across the life course. Consistent with social work values, the multidimensional approach “places an emphasis on the constant interaction of the biological, psychological, and spiritual dimensions of our inner worlds with the relational, social, structural, and cultural dimensions of our outer worlds” (p. 394).

History

Journal

Australian social work

Volume

65

Pagination

437-438

Location

London, England

ISSN

0312-407X

eISSN

1447-0748

Language

eng

Publication classification

C2.1 Other contribution to refereed journal

Copyright notice

2012, Taylor & Francis

Editor/Contributor(s)

Harms L

Issue

3

Publisher

Routledge Taylor & Francis Group