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Human Adjustment with In-Psych CD-ROM

by: Santrock, John

Human Adjustment with In-Psych CD-ROM

by: Santrock, John

ISBN 13:
9780073111919
ISBN 10:
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Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 04/18/2005
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

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Summary

In this new text for Psychology of Adjustment courses, John Santrock presents psychology as a research-based science that can be applied successfully to improving personal adjustment. Providing numerous opportunities for self-evaluation and strategies for adjustment,Human Adjustmenthelps students cope effectively with the challenges they face.

About the Author

Preface

xix

Adjusting to Life

(32)

Images of Adjustment: Ted Kaczynski and Alice Walker

(1)

Exploring Adjustment

(7)

What Is Adjustment?

(1)

Contexts, Diversity, and Adjustment

(2)

Thinking Critically About Adjustment

(2)

Self-Assessment 1.1: My Beliefs About Psychic Phenomena

(1)

Adjustment Strategies: Involving Critical Thinking

(2)

Subjective Well-Being and Adjustment

(3)

Are Rich People Happier?

(1)

Who Is Happy?

(2)

Self-Assessment 1.2: My Subjective Well-Being

(1)

Adjustment Strategies: For Happiness and Life Satisfaction

(1)

The Scientific Approach to Adjustment

(9)

Psychology and Adjustment

(1)

Adopting a Scientific Attitude

(1)

Using the Scientific Method

(2)

Adjustment Strategies: For Writing to Improve Your Health

(1)

Experimental and Correlational Research

(3)

Being a Wise Consumer of Research Information

(1)

Adjustment Strategies: For Understanding Adjustment Research

(2)

Resources for Improving Adjustment

(6)

Mental Health Professionals

(1)

National Support Groups

(1)

Self-Help Books

(1)

Adjustment Strategies: For Selecting a Self-Help Book

(2)

The Internet

(1)

Adjustment Strategies: For Finding the Best Information on the Internet Involving Human Adjustment

(2)

Reach Your Learning Goals

(4)

Personality

(44)

Images of Adjustment: Abraham Lincoln

(1)

What Is Personality?

(1)

Psychodynamic Perspectives

(7)

Freud's Psychoanalytic Theory

(4)

Psychodynamic Revisionists

(1)

Adjustment Strategies: Based on Psychodynamic Approaches

(1)

Evaluating Psychodynamic Perspectives

(1)

Behavioral and Social Cognitive Perspectives

(10)

Classical Conditioning

(1)

Skinner's Behaviorism

(2)

Social Cognitive Theory

(2)

Adjustment Strategies: For Increasing Your Self-Efficacy

(1)

Self-Assessment 2.1: Evaluating My Self-Efficacy

(1)

Self-Assessment 2.2: Am I Internally or Externally Controlled?

(1)

Adjustment Strategies: Based on Behavioral and Social Cognitive Perspectives

(1)

Evaluating the Behavioral and Social Cognitive Perspectives

(1)

Humanistic Perspectives

(5)

Rogers' Approach

(1)

Adjustment Strategies: For Becoming a Fully Functioning Person

(1)

Maslow's Approach

(1)

Adjustment Strategies: For Becoming Self-Actualized

(1)

Evaluating Humanistic Perspectives

(1)

Trait Perspectives

(5)

Trait Theories

(1)

Self-Assessment 2.3: How Introverted or Extraverted Am I?

(1)

Traits, Situations, and Culture

(1)

Adjustment Strategies: For Interacting with People from Individualist and Collectivist Cultures

(1)

Evaluating Trait Perspectives

(1)

Personality Assessment

(7)

Types of Assessment

(1)

Projective Tests

(2)

Self-Report Tests

(2)

Behavioral and Cognitive Assessment

(3)

Reach Your Learning Goals

(6)

The Self, Identity, and Values

(32)

Images of Adjustment: Maxine Hong Kingston, Bridging Cultural Worlds

(1)

The Self

(7)

Self-Concept

(2)

Self-Esteem

(1)

Self-Assessment 3.1: My Self-Esteem

(2)

Adjustment Strategies: For Increasing Self-Esteem

(2)

Self-Assessment 3.2: Do I Have Narcissistic Tendencies?

(1)

Identity

(7)

Erikson's View

(1)

The Four Statuses of Identity

(1)

Developmental Changes

(1)

Self-Assessment 3.3: What Is My Identity?

(1)

Ethnic Identity

(2)

Gender and Identity

(1)

Values

(5)

Exploring Values

(1)

Self-Assessment 3.4: What Are My Values?

(1)

Adjustment Strategies: For Clarifying Your Values

(1)

College Students' Values

(1)

Meaning in Life

(1)

Sociocultural Perspectives on Values

(1)

Religion

100

(4)

The Scope of Religion in People's Lives

100

(1)

Religion and Health

101

(1)

Self-Assessment 3.5: Spiritual Well-Being

102

(1)

Religious Coping

102

(2)

Reach Your Learning Goals

104

(6)

Stress

110

(30)

Images of Adjustment: Daphne Carlisle, La-Shawn Clark, Susan Kelly, and Mary Assanful: Stress and Coping in the Aftermath of September 11, 2001

112

(1)

What Is Stress?

113

(4)

Definitions of Stress

113

(1)

Self-Assessment 4.1: How Vulnerable Am I to Stress?

114

(1)

General Adaptation Syndrome

115

(1)

Cognitive Appraisal

116

(1)

Stress and Illness

117

(4)

Stress and the Immune System

118

(1)

Stress and Cardiovascular Disease

119

(1)

Stress and Cancer

120

(1)

Sources and Mediators of Stress

121

(11)

Environmental Factors

121

Self-Assessment 4.2: Stressful Events in My Life

112

(12)

Adjustment Strategies: For Avoiding Burnout

124

(1)

Personality Factors

125

(1)

Adjustment Strategies: For Reducing Anger

126

(2)

Work-Related Stress

128

(1)

Sociocultural Factors

129

(3)

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

132

(4)

Symptoms and Developmental Course of PTSD

132

(1)

Stressful Events and PTSD

133

(2)

Adjustment Strategies: The Road to Resilience

135

(1)

Reach Your Learning Goals

136

(4)

Coping

140

(30)

Images of Adjustment: The Remarkable Coping Skills of Rose Kennedy

142

(1)

Exploring Coping

143

(4)

What Is Coping?

143

(1)

Coping Classifications

143

(2)

Coping and Contexts

145

(2)

Strategies for Coping

147

(9)

Think Positively and Optimistically

147

(1)

Adjustment Strategies: For Self-Talk

147

(3)

Adjustment Strategies: For Becoming More Optimistic

150

(1)

Increase Self-Control

151

(1)

Adjustment Strategies: For Improving Self-Control

152

(1)

Seek Social Support

153

(1)

Use Proactive Coping

154

(1)

Engage in Enjoyable Activities and Use Humor

155

(1)

Use Multiple Coping Strategies

155

(1)

Coping with Emotions

156

(5)

Emotional Approach Coping

157

(1)

Emotional Regulation

157

(1)

Emotional Intelligence

158

(1)

Coping and Positive Emotion

158

(1)

Self-Assessment 5.1: How Emotionally Intelligent Am I?

159

(2)

Stress Management

161

(5)

Exploring Stress Management

161

(1)

Meditation and Relaxation

161

(2)

Adjustment Strategies: For Practicing Meditation

163

(1)

Biofeedback

163

(2)

Self-Assessment 5.2: My Coping Strategies

165

(1)

Reach Your Learning Goals

166

(4)

Social Thinking, Influence, and Intergroup Relations

170

(30)

Images of Adjustment: Anna Boladode Espina, an Immigrant with a Dream

172

(1)

Social Thinking

173

(5)

Making Attributions

173

(1)

Forming Impressions

174

(2)

Changing Attitudes

176

(1)

Self-Assessment 6.1: Am I a High or Low Self-Monitorer?

177

(1)

Social Influence

178

(8)

Conformity

179

(2)

Obedience

181

(2)

Adjustment Strategies: For Resisting an Unjust Request by a Person in a Position of Authority

183

(1)

Compliance

183

(2)

Adjustment Strategies: For Resisting Persuasion and Compliance Tactics

185

(1)

Intergroup Relations

186

(10)

Groups and Their Functions

186

(1)

Group Identity: Us Versus Them

187

(2)

Prejudice and Discrimination

189

(2)

Immigration

191

(1)

Adjustment Strategies: For International Students

192

(1)

Ways to Improve Interethnic Relations

192

(2)

Adjustment Strategies: For Improving Interethnic Relations

194

(2)

Reach Your Learning Goals

196

(4)

Communicating Effectively

200

(32)

Images of Adjustment: Misunderstanding in Communication

202

(1)

Exploring Interpersonal Communication

203

(3)

Messages

203

(1)

The Transactional Aspect of Communication

204

(1)

Context

204

(1)

Defining Interpersonal Communication

205

(1)

Verbal Interpersonal Communication

206

(13)

Speaking Skills

206

(1)

Listening Skills

207

(1)

Adjustment Strategies: For Becoming a Better Listener

207

(1)

Self-Disclosure

208

(2)

Adjustment Strategies: For Increasing Self-Disclosure

210

(1)

Conflict and Assertiveness

210

(1)

Self-Assessment 7.1: How Much Do I Self-Disclose?

211

(2)

Self-Assessment 7.2: What Is My Communication Style?

213

(1)

Adjustment Strategies: For Becoming More Assertive

213

(1)

Gender and Verbal Communication

214

(1)

Barriers to Effective Verbal Communication

215

(3)

Self-Assessment 7.3: How Argumentative Am I?

218

(1)

Adjustment Strategies: For Effective Verbal Expression

218

(1)

Nonverbal Interpersonal Communication

219

(9)

Dimensions of Nonverbal Communication

220

(3)

Adjustment Strategies: For Improving Intercultural Communication

223

(1)

Body Communication

223

(1)

Spatial Communication

224

(1)

Silence and Paralanguage

225

(3)

Reach Your Learning Goals

228

(4)

Friendship and Love Relationships

232

(26)

Images of Adjustment: Gwenna and Greg: Her Pursuit and His Lack of Commitment

234

(1)

Forming Relationships: Attraction

235

(2)

Familiarity and Similarity

235

(1)

Physical Attraction

236

(1)

Personality Traits

237

(1)

Friendship

237

(2)

The Benefits of Friendship

238

(1)

Gender and Friendship

238

(1)

Adjustment Strategies: For Getting and Keeping Friends

239

(1)

Love

239

(8)

What Is Love?

240

(1)

Attachment

241

(1)

Self-Assessment 8.1: What Type of Love Do I Have?

242

(1)

Self-Assessment 8.2: What Is My Attachment Style?

243

(1)

Gender and Love

244

(1)

Falling Out of Love

244

(1)

Self-Assessment 8.3: Am I Vulnerable in My Close Relationship?

245

(1)

Adjustment Strategies: For Breaking the Bonds of Love

246

(1)

The Dark Side of Close Relationships

247

(7)

Anger

247

(1)

Jealousy

247

(1)

Spouse and Partner Abuse

248

(2)

Dependence

250

(1)

Adjustment Strategies: For Overcoming Excessive Dependence

250

(1)

Loneliness

250

(1)

Self-Assessment 8.4: Am I Lonely?

251

(2)

Adjustment Strategies: For Reducing Loneliness

253

(1)

Reach Your Learning Goals

254

(4)

Adult Lifestyles

258

(32)

Images of Adjustment: Liddy's Adjustment to Postdivorce Life

260

(1)

The Diversity of Adult Lifestyles

261

(11)

Single Adults Living Alone

261

(1)

Cohabiting Adults

262

(1)

Married Adults

263

(1)

Self-Assessment 9.1: What Characteristics Do I Desire in a Potential Mate?

264

(1)

Self-Assessment 9.2: My Knowledge of Marital Myths and Realities

265

(1)

Adjustment Strategies: For Making Marriages Work

266

(2)

Divorced Adults

268

(2)

Adjustment Strategies: For Divorced Adults

270

(1)

Remarried Adults

271

(1)

Adjustment Strategies: For Remarried Adults

271

(1)

Gay and Lesbian Adults

271

(1)

The Family Life Cycle

272

(5)

Leaving Home

273

(1)

The New Couple

273

(1)

Becoming a Family with Children

273

(1)

The Family with Adolescents

274

(1)

Adjustment Strategies: For Parenting Adolescents

275

(1)

Midlife Families

275

(2)

Families in Later Life

277

(1)

Parenting

277

(9)

Timing of Parenthood

278

(1)

Parenting Styles

279

(1)

Adjustment Strategies: For Effective Parenting

280

(1)

Working Parents

281

(1)

Children in Divorced Families

281

(1)

Adjustment Strategies: For Communicating with Children About Divorce

282

(1)

Ethnicity and Parenting

283

(1)

Child Abuse

284

(2)

Reach Your Learning Goals

286

(4)

Achievement, Careers, and Work

290

(34)

Images of Adjustment: David Eggers, Pursuing a Career in the Face of Stress

292

(1)

Achievement

293

(7)

Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation

293

(1)

Goal Setting, Planning, and Monitoring

294

(1)

Adjustment Strategies: For Setting Goals

295

(1)

Time Management

295

(1)

Some Obstacles to Achievement

296

(1)

Adjustment Strategies: For Conquering Procrastination

297

(1)

Self-Assessment 10.1: Am I a Perfectionist?

298

(1)

Adjustment Strategies: For Coping with Perfectionism

299

(1)

Careers and Jobs

300

(13)

Career Development Across the Life Span

301

(4)

Skills and Personality Traits

305

(1)

Self-Assessment 10.2: What Are My Academic and Personal Skills Strengths and Weaknesses

306

(2)

Knowledge, Goals, and Careers

308

(1)

Getting a Job

309

(1)

Self-Assessment 10.3: My Career Goals

310

(2)

Adjustment Strategies: For Knocking 'Em Dead in a Job Interview

312

(1)

Work

313

(7)

The Role of Work in People's Lives

313

(3)

Working During College

316

(1)

Work and Retirement

317

(1)

Leisure

318

(2)

Reach Your Learning Goals

320

(4)

Emerging Adulthood, Adult Development, and Aging

324

(40)

Images of Adjustment: Sister Mary and Anthony Pirelli

326

(1)

Becoming an Adult

327

(8)

The Nature of Development

327

(2)

Emerging Adulthood

329

(1)

Self-Assessment 11.1: My View of Life

330

(1)

Adjustment Strategies: For Emerging Adulthood

331

(2)

Adjustment Strategies: For Returning Students

333

(1)

Self-Assessment 11.2: My College Adjustment

334

(1)

Physical Development in Adulthood

335

(6)

Early Adulthood

335

(1)

Middle Adulthood

335

(1)

Late Adulthood

336

(1)

Self-Assessment 11.3: Can I Live to Be 100?

337

(4)

Cognitive Development in Adulthood

341

(4)

Early Adulthood

342

(1)

Middle Adulthood

343

(1)

Late Adulthood

344

(1)

Socioemotional Development in Adulthood

345

(9)

Early Adulthood

345

(1)

Middle Adulthood

346

(3)

Late Adulthood

349

(4)

Adjustment Strategies: For Successful Aging

353

(1)

Death and Grieving

354

(6)

Facing One's Own Death

354

(1)

Coping with the Death of Someone Else

355

(1)

Adjustment Strategies: For Communicating with a Dying Person

356

(1)

Death in Different Cultures

357

(3)

Reach Your Learning Goals

360

(4)

Gender

364

(28)

Images of Adjustment: Tita de la Garza: Bound by Tradition

366

(1)

Perspectives on Gender

367

(5)

Defining Gender

367

(1)

Self-Assessment 12.1: My Beliefs About Gender Equality

368

(1)

Evolutionary Psychology Theory

368

(1)

Social Theories

369

(1)

Cognitive Theories

370

(2)

Gender Comparisons

372

(9)

Gender Stereotypes

372

(2)

Self-Assessment 12.2: Attitudes Toward Women

374

(1)

Gender Similarities and Differences

375

(3)

Masculinity, Femininity, and Androgyny

378

(2)

Self-Assessment 12.3: My Gender-Role Classification

380

(1)

Women's and Men's Lives

381

(7)

Women's Lives

381

(3)

Adjustment Strategies: For Women

384

(1)

Men's Lives

384

(3)

Adjustment Strategies: For Men

387

(1)

Reach Your Learning Goals

388

(4)

Sexuality

392

(30)

Images of Adjustment: Variations in Sexual Behavior: Magic Johnson and Alberto

394

(1)

Sexual Motivation and Behavior

395

(9)

The Biology of Sex

395

(2)

Sensations, Perceptions, and Cognitions

397

(1)

Culture and Sexual Motivation

397

(2)

Gender and Sexual Motivation

399

(1)

Sexual Orientation

399

(2)

Adjustment Strategies: Involving Gays and Lesbians

401

(1)

Sexual Patterns in the United States

401

(2)

Self-Assessment 13.1: What Are My Sexual Attitudes?

403

(1)

Sexuality and Adjustment

404

(8)

Sexual Communication

404

(1)

Adjustment Strategies: For Effective Communication in Sexual Relationships

405

(1)

Sexual Myths and Sex Education

405

(1)

Self-Assessment 13.2: Sexual Satisfaction for My Partner and Myself

406

(1)

Self-Assessment 13.3: My Awareness of Sexual Myths

407

(1)

Contraception

408

(1)

Psychosexual Dysfunctions and Disorders

409

(3)

Sexuality and Harm

412

(6)

Sexually Transmitted Infections

412

(2)

Adjustment Strategies: For Protecting Against STIs

414

(1)

Rape

414

(1)

Adjustment Strategies: Involving Acquaintance Rape

415

(1)

Sexual Harassment

416

(1)

Incest

417

(1)

Pornography and Violence Against Women

417

(1)

Reach Your Learning Goals

418

(4)

Psychological Disorders

422

(38)

Images of Adjustment: Kay Redfield Jamison

424

(1)

Understanding Abnormal Behavior

425

(6)

Defining Abnormal Behavior

425

(1)

Theoretical Approaches to Psychological Disorders

426

(2)

Classifying Abnormal Behavior

428

(3)

Anxiety Disorders

431

(5)

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

431

(1)

Panic Disorder

432

(1)

Adjustment Strategies: For Coping with Panic

433

(1)

Phobic Disorders

433

(1)

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

434

(1)

Adjustment Strategies: For Coping with an Anxiety Disorder

435

(1)

Dissociative Disorders

436

(2)

Dissociative Amnesia and Fugue

436

(1)

Dissociative Identity Disorder

436

(2)

Mood Disorders

438

(10)

Depressive Disorders

438

(1)

Adjustment Strategies: For Coping with Depression

439

(1)

Self-Assessment 14.1: Am I Depressed?

440

(1)

Bipolar Disorder

441

(1)

Causes of Mood Disorders

442

(4)

Suicide

446

(1)

Adjustment Strategies: For Communicating with Someone Threatening Suicide

447

(1)

Schizophrenia

448

(3)

Types of Schizophrenia

449

(1)

Causes of Schizophrenia

449

(2)

Personality Disorders

451

(3)

Odd or Eccentric Cluster

451

(1)

Dramatic or Emotionally Problematic Cluster

451

(1)

Anxious or Fearfulness Cluster

452

(2)

Reach Your Learning Goals

454

(6)

Therapies

460

(36)

Images of Adjustment: Steve M., Benefiting from Therapy

462

(1)

Biological Therapies

463

(5)

Drug Therapy

463

(3)

Electroconvulsive Therapy

466

(1)

Psychosurgery

467

(1)

Psychotherapies

468

(12)

Psychodynamic Therapies

468

(2)

Adjustment Strategies: Based on Psychodynamic Therapies

470

(1)

Humanistic Therapies

471

(1)

Behavior Therapies

472

(3)

Cognitive Therapies

475

(1)

Self-Assessment 15.1: Do I Have Irrational Beliefs?

476

(2)

Adjustment Strategies: Based on Beck's Cognitive Therapy

478

(1)

Adjustment Strategies: For Self-Instructional Methods

479

(1)

Integrative Therapy

479

(1)

Sociocultural Approaches and Issues in Treatment

480

(6)

Group Therapy

481

(1)

Family and Couples Therapy

482

(1)

Adjustment Strategies: Based on Family Therapy

482

(1)

Self-Help Support Groups

483

(1)

Adjustment Strategies: For Benefiting from Self-Help Support Groups

484

(1)

Community Mental Health

484

(1)

Cultural Perspectives

485

(1)

Evaluating Therapy

486

(4)

Is Therapy Effective?

486

(2)

Common Themes in Psychotherapy

488

(1)

Funding Therapy

488

(1)

Selecting a Therapist

489

(1)

Self-Assessment 15.2: Do I Need to See a Therapist?

490

(1)

Adjustment Strategies: For Seeking Professional Help

490

(1)

Reach Your Learning Goals

490

(6)

Health

496

(34)

Images of Adjustment: Lance Armstrong, Coping with Cancer

498

(1)

Explaining Health and Illness

499

(1)

Bio-Psycho-Social Model

499

(3)

Self-Assessment 16.1: Is My Lifestyle Good for My Health?

500

(1)

Psychological Factors in Health and Illness

500

(1)

Social Factors in Health and Illness

500

(2)

Nutrition and Eating

502

(9)

Nutrition and Eating Behavior

502

(1)

Adjustment Strategies: For Eating Right

503

(3)

Eating Problems

506

(2)

Adjustment Strategies: For Losing Weight

508

(1)

Self-Assessment 16.2: What Are My Eating Attitudes and Behaviors Like?

509

(2)

Exercise

511

(3)

The Benefits of Exercise

511

(1)

Exercise and Longevity

512

(1)

Adjustment Strategies: For Exercising Regularly

513

(1)

Drugs and Addiction

514

(7)

Psychoactive Drugs

514

(1)

Addiction

515

(1)

Alcohol

515

(2)

Self-Assessment 16.3: Do I Abuse Drugs?

517

(2)

Adjustment Strategies: For Curbing Alcohol Use

519

(1)

Smoking

519

(1)

Adjustment Strategies: For Quitting Smoking

520

(1)

The Patient and the Health-Care Setting

521

(5)

Recognizing and Interpreting Symptoms

521

(1)

Seeking Treatment

522

(1)

The Patient's Role

523

(1)

Adherence to Medical Advice and Treatment

523

(1)

Socioeconomic Status and Ethnicity

523

(1)

Gender

524

(2)

Reach Your Learning Goals

526

(4)

Appendex Self-Assessment Scoring and Interpretation

530

Glossary

(1)

References

(1)

Credits

(1)

Name Index

(1)

Subject Index

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