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Human Adjustment with In-Psych CD-ROM

ISBN: 9780073111919 | 0073111910
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Pub. Date: 4/18/2005

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SummaryTable of Contents
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 Authorvi
Prefacexix
Adjusting to Life
2(32)
Images of Adjustment: Ted Kaczynski and Alice Walker
... MORE4(1)
Exploring Adjustment
5(7)
What Is Adjustment?
5(1)
Contexts, Diversity, and Adjustment
6(2)
Thinking Critically About Adjustment
8(2)
Self-Assessment 1.1: My Beliefs About Psychic Phenomena
10(1)
Adjustment Strategies: Involving Critical Thinking
10(2)
Subjective Well-Being and Adjustment
12(3)
Are Rich People Happier?
12(1)
Who Is Happy?
12(2)
Self-Assessment 1.2: My Subjective Well-Being
14(1)
Adjustment Strategies: For Happiness and Life Satisfaction
14(1)
The Scientific Approach to Adjustment
15(9)
Psychology and Adjustment
15(1)
Adopting a Scientific Attitude
16(1)
Using the Scientific Method
17(2)
Adjustment Strategies: For Writing to Improve Your Health
19(1)
Experimental and Correlational Research
19(3)
Being a Wise Consumer of Research Information
22(1)
Adjustment Strategies: For Understanding Adjustment Research
22(2)
Resources for Improving Adjustment
24(6)
Mental Health Professionals
24(1)
National Support Groups
24(1)
Self-Help Books
25(1)
Adjustment Strategies: For Selecting a Self-Help Book
26(2)
The Internet
28(1)
Adjustment Strategies: For Finding the Best Information on the Internet Involving Human Adjustment
28(2)
Reach Your Learning Goals
30(4)
Personality
34(44)
Images of Adjustment: Abraham Lincoln
36(1)
What Is Personality?
37(1)
Psychodynamic Perspectives
38(7)
Freud's Psychoanalytic Theory
38(4)
Psychodynamic Revisionists
42(1)
Adjustment Strategies: Based on Psychodynamic Approaches
43(1)
Evaluating Psychodynamic Perspectives
44(1)
Behavioral and Social Cognitive Perspectives
45(10)
Classical Conditioning
46(1)
Skinner's Behaviorism
47(2)
Social Cognitive Theory
49(2)
Adjustment Strategies: For Increasing Your Self-Efficacy
51(1)
Self-Assessment 2.1: Evaluating My Self-Efficacy
52(1)
Self-Assessment 2.2: Am I Internally or Externally Controlled?
53(1)
Adjustment Strategies: Based on Behavioral and Social Cognitive Perspectives
53(1)
Evaluating the Behavioral and Social Cognitive Perspectives
54(1)
Humanistic Perspectives
55(5)
Rogers' Approach
56(1)
Adjustment Strategies: For Becoming a Fully Functioning Person
57(1)
Maslow's Approach
57(1)
Adjustment Strategies: For Becoming Self-Actualized
58(1)
Evaluating Humanistic Perspectives
59(1)
Trait Perspectives
60(5)
Trait Theories
61(1)
Self-Assessment 2.3: How Introverted or Extraverted Am I?
61(1)
Traits, Situations, and Culture
62(1)
Adjustment Strategies: For Interacting with People from Individualist and Collectivist Cultures
63(1)
Evaluating Trait Perspectives
64(1)
Personality Assessment
65(7)
Types of Assessment
65(1)
Projective Tests
65(2)
Self-Report Tests
67(2)
Behavioral and Cognitive Assessment
69(3)
Reach Your Learning Goals
72(6)
The Self, Identity, and Values
78(32)
Images of Adjustment: Maxine Hong Kingston, Bridging Cultural Worlds
80(1)
The Self
81(7)
Self-Concept
81(2)
Self-Esteem
83(1)
Self-Assessment 3.1: My Self-Esteem
84(2)
Adjustment Strategies: For Increasing Self-Esteem
86(2)
Self-Assessment 3.2: Do I Have Narcissistic Tendencies?
88(1)
Identity
88(7)
Erikson's View
89(1)
The Four Statuses of Identity
90(1)
Developmental Changes
91(1)
Self-Assessment 3.3: What Is My Identity?
92(1)
Ethnic Identity
92(2)
Gender and Identity
94(1)
Values
95(5)
Exploring Values
95(1)
Self-Assessment 3.4: What Are My Values?
96(1)
Adjustment Strategies: For Clarifying Your Values
96(1)
College Students' Values
97(1)
Meaning in Life
98(1)
Sociocultural Perspectives on Values
99(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 Interpretation530
Glossary1(1)
References1(1)
Credits1(1)
Name Index1(1)
Subject Index1

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