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Psychology for Living : Adjustment, Growth, and Behavior Today
ISBN: 9780132224475 | 013222447X
Edition: 9thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 1/1/2008
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The author's goal is to increase readers'understanding as well as their knowledge about personal adjustment, in order that they may continue learning on their own. By underscoring several important societal (not just personal) themes, the reader is compelled to focus on other people as much as the self. Content is drawn from the psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, and humanistic viewpoints and includes contributions from clinical, personality, social, and developmental psychology, as well as from cognitive, biological, and health psychology.Re... MORE
| Self-Direction in a Changing World | |
| The Journey Begins Childhood | |
| Affirmative Aging Adulthood | |
| Seeking Selfhood | |
| Toward Better Health | |
| Taking Charge | |
| Managing Motives and Emotions | |
| Making and Keeping Friends | |
| Leader or Follower? | |
| At Work and Play | |
| Sexuality | |
| L... MORE | |
| Stress | |
| Understanding Mental Disorders | |
| If You Go for Help | |
| Good Grief and Death Full | |
| Introduction | |
| Self-Direction in a Changing World | |
| Social Change Living in a Technological World | |
| Living with Other Social Changes | |
| How Certain Is Our Future | |
| The Challenge of Self-Direction | |
| Self-Direction and Society | |
| The Ambiguity of Personal Freedom | |
| Taking Charge of Our Lives | |
| Living in Today's | |
| Individualized Society Themes of Personal Growth | |
| Living With Contradictions and Uncertainty | |
| Continuity and Change | |
| The Experience of Personal Growth | |
| Beyond Individualism | |
| Summary | |
| Self-Test | |
| Exercises | |
| Questions for Self-Reflection For Further Information | |
| Becoming | |
| The Journey Begins Childhood | |
| Perspectives on Child Development | |
| The Biological Perspective on Child Development | |
| Nature versus Nurture | |
| An Old Debate | |
| A Newer Approach Applying | |
| It to Yourself | |
| The Psychodynamic Perspective on Child Development | |
| Development of Personality | |
| The Structure of Personality | |
| Personality Dynamics Modifications | |
| Applying It to Yourself | |
| The Social-Cognitive Perspective on Child Development | |
| Social Learning Theories | |
| Recent Additions: Cognition and Behavior | |
| Applying It to Yourself | |
| The Humanistic Perspective on Development | |
| The Phenomenal Self Self-Actualization | |
| Applying It to Yourself | |
| Conclusion Developmental Challenges in Childhood | |
| Temperament Self-Recognition and Self-Concept | |
| Attachment | |
| Summary | |
| Self-Test | |
| Exercises Questions for Self-Reflection For Further Information | |
| Affirmative Aging Adulthood Adult Development | |
| Decisions, Decisions, Decisions - Early Adulthood Leaving | |
| Home Choosing a Career Establishing | |
| Close Relationships Starting a Family Same Old | |
| Same Old? - Middle Adulthood | |
| Midlife Transition or Midlife Crisis? | |
| Physical and Cognitive Changes | |
| Possible Career Changes | |
| Sexual Changes | |
| Aging Gracefully - Late Adulthood | |
| Physical and Cognitive Changes | |
| Personal and Social Adjustment | |
| Retirement Successful Aging | |
| Summary | |
| Answers to Aging Quiz | |
| Self-Test | |
| Exercises Questions for Self-Reflection For Further Information | |
| Better Than Ever | |
| Seeking Selfhood | |
| What is the Self-Concept Self-Image Ideal self Multiple Selves Core | |
| Characteristics of Self-Concept Self-Consistency Self-Esteem Self-Enhancement and Self-Verification | |
| The Self-Concept and Personal Growth | |
| The Self You'd Like to Be Our Social Selves | |
| Learning from Criticism | |
| Greater Self-Direction | |
| Summary | |
| Self-Test | |
| Exercises Questions for Self-Reflection For Further Information | |
| Toward Better Health Body Image | |
| How We Feel About Our Bodies | |
| Our Ideal Body Psychological Factors and Physical Illness | |
| The Immune System | |
| Personality Lifestyle Choices | |
| Environmental Issues Coping with Illness | |
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