Human Growth and Development

John Sudbery is now retired. He is an honorary senior lecturer at the University of Salford, UK, where he carried out his teaching, writing and research. As a social worker or supervisor he worked for many years with people of all ages and was an accredited psychotherapist.Andrew Whittaker is Associate Professor and Head of Social Work at London South Bank University, UK, where he teaches Human Growth and Development. He was a Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Work Research at the Tavistock Clinic, an area director for the mental health charity Mind and a senior social worker in child protection and child and adolescent mental health teams.

'An understanding of Human Growth and Development is essential to social work practice. This book is a friendly, comprehensive guide to human growth and development suitable for social work students and more experienced practitioners alike.' - Dr Anna Harvey, Senior Clinical Lecturer in Social Work and Social Care, Tavistock and Portman Clinic 'This book is a wonderful resource for social workers in training and in practice. It is very accessible, with materials arranged to allow the reader to tailor the depth of their learning according to their needs. Theory and research are explained with care and there are practice examples throughout the book help the reader engage with these frameworks as tools to guide and develop understanding of service users’ lived experiences.' - Dr Ducan Helm, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Stirling'In this 2nd edition of John Sudbury’s book, now with Andrew Whittaker, the psychodynamic orientation of the original text has been retained whilst content and form have been updated and refreshed. Developments refer to: the influence on young lives of social media; work with refugees fleeing war and conflict; gender variant and transgender identities; and recent data on culturally sensitive work with older adults.' - Clare Parkinson, Clinical Lecturer, Senior Social Worker, SFHEA, The Tavistock Centre, London

• List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Beginnings; 2 A secure base; 3 The developing child; 4 Transitions and adolescence; 5 Living independently; 6 Sex, love, work and children; 7 Maturity and some of its hazards; 8 Adulthood and ageing; 9 Dying, grief and mourning; 10 Fitting the pieces together; \Essential background; 1 The principles of heredity; 2 Attachment theory; 3 Bronfenbrenner’s ecological model; 4 Psychoanalytic theories; 5 Piaget’s theory of cognitive development; 6 Erikson’s psychosocial theory of personality; 7 The humanistic models of Maslow and Rogers; 8 Learning and behavioural models; 9 Models of ageing: social disengagement theory, activity theory, feminist perspectives and political economy theory; 10 Three approaches to loss and grief; Glossary; Bibliography; Index