Human Behavior
A range of behaviors exhibited by humans and are influenced by culture, attitudes, emotions, values, ethics, etc..
Human Behavior
Spontaneous generation, phrenology, blank slate theory
Defunct Theory
A problem-oriented approach that is concerned with identifying a problem or dysfunction within a person.
The Medical Model
Allows us to better understand the connection between our personal lives and larger social forces that influence us
Sociological Imagination
A set of ideas that attempt to explain certain events of phenomena
Theory
Used to better understand people as active agents whose lives, relationships, and environments impact one another.
Micro-Mezzo-Macro Approach
Regulate organs and functions, mood, energy levels, blood glucose, etc.
Hormones
Major theorists include:
Marx, Weber, Simmel, DuBois
Conflict Theory
To reasonably predict and explain behavior in a way that will help you develop appropriate and effective interventions for your clients
The purpose of theory
Understanding human behavior through assessing an individual’s interrelated biological, psychological, and social functioning.
Biopsychosocial Approach
Responsible for processing color, shape, and motion.
Occipital Lobe
People create their own reality based on their experiences
Social Constructionism
It promotes social work values and ethics
Philosophical Underpinnings
Each part plays an important role in the function of the whole, and the whole in turn supports and sustains the parts.
System
governs ego and ensures actions are assessed with possible consequences taken into consideration
Reality Principle
the advocacy of social, economic, and political equality between both sexes and is often expanded to apply to equal rights to all minority groups.
Feminist Theory
These are often a problem that practioners try to avoid: problems with observations, overgeneralizations, biases and value judgments, lack of inquiry
Human pitfalls of research
The thought that clients are experts on their situation, insightful into successful approaches to problem solving used in the past, and resilient and resourceful
Strengths Perspective
Denial, intellectualization, projection, reaction formation, repression
Defense Mechanisms
Important concepts include:
Ethnic identity, ethnicity, ethnos, ideology, and social class
Cultural Perspectives