People and Change: An Introduction To Counseling and Stress Management

by Flanagan; Catherine M.

• ISBN13: 9780805804515
• ISBN10: 080580451X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1990-05-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

How to capitalize on change -- as a key feature of modern living - - is the central theme of this work. Incorporating the major theoretical advances psychology has made during the last thirty years, People and Changedescribes how clinical levels of psychological difficulty can develop and how problems such as phobias, depression, shyness, marital and sexual disharmony, obsessions, and over-indulgence are treated. Although a psychology text, People and Changeoffers an unusually broad scope. The text acknowledges the interplay of somatic vulnerabilities, environmental influences, large individual differences, and various other factors that can be involved in the complex stress process that leads to bad habits. The ability of the individual to adapt to change through self-knowledge is stressed throughout this important book.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
How Problems Develop	p. 7
Learning	p. 9
Sources of Stress	p. 23
The Stress Response	p. 49
Specific Problem Areas	p. 59
Anxiety, Fears, and Phobias	p. 61
Depression	p. 75
Obsessive-Compulsive Problems	p. 85
Relating	p. 95
Marriage	p. 105
Sex	p. 113
Overindulgence	p. 123
Attrition, Adherence, and Relapse	p. 135
Identifying Problems and Planning Changes	p. 149
Making Changes in Thinking	p. 201
References	p. 229
Author Index	p. 237
Subject Index	p. 245
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