Human Needs: Overview

Properly considered a chapter in an ebook. Dover, M. A. (2016, April 5). Human needs Overview. In The Encyclopedia of Social Work (Online edition), Edited by Cynthia Franklin. New York: Oxford University Press and National Association of Social Workers. Available online open access at OUP here: http://tinyurl.com/zpuj4k9. This entirely new entry and peer-reviewed entry will appear April 5, 2016, and will be featured and open access. This 14,000 word peer-reviewed overview of the history and contemporary usage of theories of human need is the first comprehensive overview of theories of human need written in any discipline. Following an introduction, includes sections on: History of Theories of Human Need in Social Work (Charlotte Towle’s Common Human Needs, The work on human needs of David Gil, Needs Theory in Social Work's Interdisciplinary Foundation); Theories of Human Need (Theory of Human Need of Doyal and Gough (THN), Self-Determination Theory of Deci and Ryan, Comparing SDT and THN, Conceptual Issues for Social Work's Use of Human Needs Theory, Human needs and human well-being, Human needs and quality of life, Human needs and human spirituality, Needs, wants and desires, Postmodernist Critiques, Needs as universal or relative, Needs and harm, Needs and strengths/deficits, Needs or capabilities); Social Work Education; Social Welfare Policy (Global Justice Policy, Needs and Environmental Sustainability); Social Work Practice (Recent use of THN and SDT in social work practice literature, The transformational integrative multidimensional evolutionary (TIME) model); Social Research; Social and Political Action; Social Work Values and Ethics; Needs, Rights, and Justice: Recent Theoretical Developments; The Work of James Ife on Human Rights and Human Needs; Future Trends and Opportunities. For confirmation of peer review: http://tinyurl.com/h9pyw8y