Psychology for Living: Adjustment, Growth, and Behavior Today

by Duffy, Karen G.; Atwater, Eastwood

• ISBN13: 9780130409508
• ISBN10: 0130409502
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Pearson College Div

Summary

For courses on Adjustment, Coping, Personal Growth, Mental Health, and Applied Psychology. This introduction to the psychology of personal adjustment exposes students to all the major perspectives on psychology and provides opportunities for applying concepts to their personal lives. It combines an accessible, personalized approach with a research orientation by balancing the most current scientific literature with a wealth of applications and the more popular aspects of psychology. 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.

Author Biography

Karen Duffy is a Distinguished Service Professor at the State University of New York, College at Geneseo Eastwood Atwater was a professor of psychology at Montgomery County Community College and lectured at Gwynedd-Mercy College. He died in 1996

Table of Contents

Self-Direction in a Changing World	1	(25)
Personality and Social Development	26	(28)
Motivation and Emotion	54	(28)
Stress	82	(25)
The Body and Health	107	(31)
Self-Concept	138	(3)
Meeting People and Making Friends	141	(45)
Being Part of a Group	186	(27)
Marriage and Intimate Relationships	213	(26)
Sexuality	239	(30)
Work and Leisure	269	(27)
Personal Control and Decision Making	296	(22)
Psychological Disorders	318	(28)
Therapy	346	(28)
Older and Still Growing	374	(25)
Death and Bereavement	399