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• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Human Behavior and the Core Competencies (EPAS)
• About the Authors
• Chapter 1 Introducing the Cell to Society Framework
• Case Study: Malia’s Different Abilities
• On the Importance of Transdisciplinary Approaches
• Change and Adaptation: Biological and Cultural Evolution
• Systems Thinking and Complexity
• Science and Scientific Methods
• Pseudoscience and the Human Condition
• Spotlight Topic: “Baloney Detection”
• The Cell to Society Framework and the Life Course
• Major Developmental Milestones
• Major Theoretical Perspectives
• Expert’s Corner: John Brekke
• Components of the Cell to Society Framework
• Genes and Behavior
• Stress and Adaptation
• Emotion
• Executive Functions
• Temperament
• Personality
• Cognition and Learning
• Social Exchange and Cooperation
• Social Networks and Psychosocial Relations
• Technology
• The Physical Environment
• Institutions
• Belief Systems and Ideology
• Summary
• Key Terms
• Chapter 2 Genes and Behavior
• Case Study: Cory
• Distal Context
• Principles of Human Evolution
• Heritability
• Spotlight Topic: Nature and Nurture Means Both
• Proximal Mechanisms
• A Molecular Biology Primer for the Social Work Practitioner
• Genetic Variation and Neural Substrates
• Genes and Behavior Over the Life Course
• Fetal Environment and Infancy
• Childhood
• Adolescence
• Adulthood
• Expert’s Corner: Terrie E. Moffitt
• Summary
• Key Terms
• Chapter 3 Stress and Adaptation
• Case Study: Juan Carlos-Profile of Adaptation in Unpredictable and Uncertain Times
• Distal Context
• What Is Stress and What Does It Have to Do With Human Behavior?
• Principles of Human Evolution
• Spotlight Topic: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
• Proximal Mechanisms
• Neural Substrates and Stress
• Endocrine System and Function
• Stress, Inflammation, and Biomarkers
• Environmental Triggers
• Childhood Stress Caused by Structural Violence
• Spotlight Topic: How Environmental Stress Gets Under the Skin
• Stress and Adaptation Over the Life Course
• Fetal Environment and Infancy
• Early Childhood and Childhood
• Adolescence
• Adulthood
• Sex Differences
• Expert’s Corner: Bruce S. McEwen, Rockefeller University
• Summary
• Key Terms
• Chapter 4 Emotion
• Spotlight Topic: Emotional Valence and Affect
• Case Study: Tamika
• Distal Context
• Reflection: Social Work Intern in the Emergency Room
• Proximal Mechanisms
• Prefrontal Cortex
• Limbic System
• Social Information Processing
• Spotlight Topic: Empathy
• Emotional Development and Psychosocial Relations Over the Life Course
• Fetal Environment and Infancy
• Early Childhood and Childhood
• Adolescence
• Adulthood
• Sex Differences
• Expert’s Corner: Jeanne Tsai, Stanford University
• Summary
• Key Terms
• Chapter 5 Executive Functions
• Case Study: Corporal Wagner
• Distal Context
• Proximal Mechanisms
• Emotion, Rewards, and Relationships
• Spotlight Topic: ADHD
• Executive Functions and Psychosocial Relations Over the Life Course
• Fetal Environment and Infancy
• Early Childhood and Childhood
• Spotlight Topic: Psychotropic Drug Treatment
• Adolescence
• Adulthood
• Spotlight Topic: Improving Executive Functions
• Sex Differences
• Expert’s Corner: Russell A. Barkley, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, SUNY Upstate M
• Summary
• Key Terms
• Chapter 6 Temperament
• Case Study: Gloria
• Distal Context
• What Is Temperament?
• Theories of Temperament
• Alexander Thomas and Stella Chess
• Jerome Kagan
• Mary Rothbart
• Robert Cloninger
• Arnold Buss and Robert Plomin
• Central Nervous System and Evolutionary Underpinnings
• Spotlight Topic: The Criminology of the Amygdala
• Proximal Mechanisms
• Prefrontal Cortex and Executive Governance
• The Limbic System, the Amygdala, and Emotional Processing
• Neurological Deficits
• Attachment and Neural Function
• Disorders Related to Temperament
• Spotlight Topic: Psychopathy
• Temperament Over the Life Course
• Fetal Environment and Infancy
• Childhood
• Adolescence
• Adulthood
• Expert’s Corner: Jerome Kagan
• Summary
• Key Terms
• Chapter 7 Personality
• Case Study: The Saldago Twins
• Distal Context
• What Is Personality?
• Central Nervous System and Evolutionary Underpinnings
• The Five Factor Model of Personality
• Proximal Mechanisms
• Neural Substrates
• Genetic Underpinnings
• Environmental Contexts
• Spotlight Topic: Personality and the Social Work Profession
• Personality Disorders
• Paranoid Personality Disorder
• Schizoid Personality Disorder
• Schizotypal Personality Disorder
• Antisocial Personality Disorder
• Borderline Personality Disorder
• Histrionic Personality Disorder
• Narcissistic Personality Disorder
• Avoidant Personality Disorder
• Dependent Personality Disorder
• Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder
• Clients and Personality Functioning
• Spotlight Topic: Borderline Personality Disorders and Dialectical Behavior Therapy
• Personality Over the Life Course
• Fetal Environment and Infancy
• Early Childhood and Childhood
• Adolescence
• Adulthood
• Sex Differences
• Expert’s Corner: Paul Costa
• Summary
• Key Terms
• Chapter 8 Cognition and Learning
• Distal Context
• Conscious and Unconscious Mind
• Case Study: Jack
• Intelligence
• Learning
• Learning Challenges
• Spotlight Topic: Tools of the Mind
• Motivation
• Self-Regulation and Cognitive Control
• Interpersonal Neurobiology
• Technological Advances to Understand the Mind
• Real-Time fMRI
• Individualizing Treatment Sequencing
• Neural Profiles of Resiliency
• Social Process Influence on Brain-Behavior Change
• Expert’s Corner: Frank Krueger
• Cognitive Development Across the Life Course
• Early Brain Maturation
• Childhood and Adolescence
• Cognitive Functioning and Decline in Adulthood
• Summary
• Key Terms
• Chapter 9 Social Exchange and Cooperation
• Case Study: Food Cooperatives
• Distal Context
• Evolution and Social Exchange
• Game Theory
• Prisoner’s Dilemma
• Cooperation
• Government Shutdowns Due to Lack of Congressional Cooperation
• Spotlight Topic: The “Big Man” Theory
• Utilitarianism and Social Exchange Theory
• Conflict Resolution for Personal Gain
• Homans’s Elementary Forms of Social Behavior
• Emotion and Social Exchange
• Experiments Involving Social Exchange
• Reciprocity and Fairness
• Neuroscience of Social Exchange and Cooperation
• Power
• Altruism
• Restorative Justice: A Form of Altruism?
• Race and Altruism
• Self-Report Measures of Altruism
• Emotion Again
• Expert’s Corner: Peter Corning
• Exchange and Cooperation Over the Life Course
• Fetal Environment and Infancy
• Childhood and Adolescence
• Adulthood
• Summary
• Key Terms
• Chapter 10 Social Networks and Psychosocial Relations
• Distal Context
• Going It Alone?
• Case Study 1: Tyler, Disconnected and Struggling
• Attachment: The Developing Self in the Context of Others
• Case Study 2: Joey, Marching Into the Middle Class
• Social Relationships Across the Life Course
• Early Childhood
• Adolescence
• Emerging Adulthood
• Middle Age
• Older Adulthood
• Social Networks: Peers, Family, and Community
• Peers: The Influence of Your Friend’s Friends’ Friends
• Expert’s Corner: Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH
• Family: The Network of First and Last Resort
• Community Connections: From Hull House to Facebook
• Spotlight Topic: Harlem Children’s Zone
• Current Innovations in Community Building
• Hierarchies and Power
• Summary
• Key Terms
• Chapter 11 Technology
• Distal Context
• Technology Systems Among Chimpanzees
• Case Study: Micro and Macro Interventions
• Technology and Society: Major Theoretical Frameworks
• Ecological-Evolutionary Typology
• Cultural Materialism
• Technological Determinism
• Technological Change
• Technology Inside the Home
• Spotlight Topic: The Automobile
• Technology and Its Distribution in a Society
• Power
• Gender, Race, and Computer Technology
• Cross-National Comparisons
• Expert’s Corner: Nazli Choucri
• Computers and Information Technology
• Social Media
• Who Tweets, Blogs, and Uses Facebook?
• The Dark Side of Internet and Computer Use
• Integrating Technology Into Behavioral Interventions
• Technology Over the Life Course
• Fetal Environment and Infancy
• Early Childhood and Childhood
• Adolescence
• Adulthood
• Summary
• Key Terms
• Chapter 12 The Physical Environment
• Distal Context
• Geographic Origins of Inequalities
• Axis Orientations
• Case Study: Community Types
• Geography and Economics Intersect
• Diffusion of Religion Around the Globe
• Ecosystems Theory
• Steward’s Cultural Ecology
• Climate
• Natural Disasters
• Urban Ecology
• Built Environment
• Rural Ecology
• Spotlight Topic: Sense of Place
• The Effect of Setting: Jails and Prisons
• Office Spaces and Productivity
• Tools for Spatial Analysis
• Case Study: Community Development and Youth Gangs
• Spatial Effects and Variation Over the Life Course
• Fetal Environment and Infancy
• Early Childhood and Childhood
• Adolescence
• Adulthood and Older Adulthood
• Expert’s Corner: Claudia Coulton, Case Western Reserve University
• Summary
• Key Terms
• Chapter 13 Institutions
• Case Study: The Overthrow of Institutions: Revolution and the Arab Spring
• Background and Distal Context
• Institutions
• Workplace Culture
• Evolution of Institutions and Social Organization
• Spotlight Topic: Bureaucracy
• Proximal Mechanisms
• Hierarchies
• Social Stratification
• The Caste System in India
• Energy Regulation
• Example: Conflict and Energy
• Spotlight Topic: Energy Sharing
• Law and Social Control
• Juvenile Justice Through Supreme Court Decisions
• Leadership
• Impact of Economic Institutions on Human Behavior
• Expert’s Corner: Michael Sherraden, Benjamin E. Youngdahl Professor of Social Development, Washingto
• Institutions Over the Life Course
• Fetal Environment and Infancy
• Childhood and Adolescence
• Adulthood
• Summary
• Key Terms
• Chapter 14 Belief Systems and Ideology
• Case Study: Westboro Baptist Church
• Distal Context
• Evolution and Symbols
• Patriotism and Nationalism
• Political Ideology and Cognition
• Religious Ideology
• Expert’s Corner: Jonathan Haidt
• Religious and Spiritual Evidence-Based Practices
• Race, Gender, and Class Ideologies
• Effective Race-, Gender-, and Class-Based Practices
• What Is Culture?
• Spotlight Topic: Cultural Neuroscience
• A Brief History of the Culture Concept
• The Culture Concept in Classical Antiquity
• Medieval and Renaissance Periods
• Practice Implications
• The Problem of Confirmatory Bias
• Case Study: Cultural Awareness
• Belief Systems and Ideology Over the Life Course
• Childhood
• Adolescence
• Adulthood
• Summary
• Key Terms
• Glossary
• References
• Author Index
• Subject Index