Table of Contents

PART I
1. Psychosocial Theory: Being and Becoming
2. How People Begin: 'the child as father to the man'
3. How People Become: Agency and Identification
4. How People Connect: Love, Marriage and the Family
5. How People are Occupied: School, Work and After in Consumer Societies
6. How People Thrive: Resilience and Well-being
7. How People Struggle: Social Suffering and Ill-being
8. How People Hurt and Hate: Violence and Bullying
9. How People Age and Die: Disengagement, Disruption and Loss
PART II
1. Background to the Psychosocial Approach
2. Psychosocial Theory in Process
3. Psychosocial Theory from Psychoanalysis and Child Psychiatry
4. Psychosocial Theory from Psychology
5. Psychosocial Theory from Sociology and Social Theory
6. Psychosocial Theory in Applied Contexts
7. Psychosocial Theory and the Theorist.

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About the Author

Elizabeth Frost is Principal Lecturer in Social Work and Fellow of the Centre for Psychosocial Studies at the School of Health and Social Care, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.

Stuart McClean is Senior Lecturer in Health Science at the School of Health and Social Care, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.

Reviews

Thinking About the Lifecourse: A Psychosocial Introduction is a primer of a ‘psychosocial way of thinking’ about issues of human growth and development and their social context … The combination of this breadth with the engaging style of writing maintained in the text and accessible format it is presented … render it well-matched to the needs of a diverse health and social welfare practitioner readership.
*Philip John Archard, Journal of Social Work Practice*