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Human Adjustment

John W. Santrock, University of Texas at Dallas

ISBN: 0072990597
Copyright year: 2006

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CHAPTER 1: ADJUSTING TO LIFE

  • Exploring Adjustment
  • Subjective Well-Being and Adjustment
  • The Scientific Approach to Adjustment
  • Resources for Improving Adjustment
  • CHAPTER 2: PERSONALITY

  • What Is Personality?
  • Psychodynamic Perspectives
  • Behavioral and Social Cognitive Perspectives
  • Humanistic Perspectives
  • Trait Perspectives
  • Personality Assessment
  • CHAPTER 3: THE SELF, IDENTITY, AND VALUES

  • The Self
  • Identity
  • Values
  • Religion
  • CHAPTER 4: STRESS

  • What Is Stress?
  • Stress and Illness
  • Sources and Mediators of Stress
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
  • CHAPTER 5: COPING

  • Exploring Coping
  • Strategies for Coping
  • Coping with Emotions
  • Stress Management
  • CHAPTER 6: SOCIAL THINKING, INFLUENCE, AND INTERGROUP RELATIONS

  • Social Thinking
  • Social Influence
  • Intergroup Relations
  • CHAPTER 7: COMMUNICATING EFFECTIVELY

  • Exploring Interpersonal Communication
  • Verbal Interpersonal Communication
  • Nonverbal Interpersonal Communication
  • CHAPTER 8: FRIENDSHIP AND LOVE RELATIONSHIPS

  • Forming Close Relationships: Attraction
  • Friendship
  • Love
  • The Dark Side of Close Relationships
  • CHAPTER 9: ADULT LIFE STYLES

  • The Diversity of Adult Life Styles
  • The Family Life Cycle
  • Parenting
  • CHAPTER 10: ACHIEVEMENT, CAREERS, AND WORK

  • Achievement
  • Careers and Jobs
  • Work
  • CHAPTER 11: EMERGING ADULTHOOD, ADULT DEVELOPMENT, AND AGING

  • Becoming an Adult
  • Physical Development in Adulthood
  • Cognitive Development in Adulthood
  • Socioemotional Development in Adulthood
  • Death and Grieving
  • CHAPTER 12: GENDER

  • Perspectives on Gender
  • Gender Comparisons
  • Women's and Men's Lives
  • CHAPTER 13: SEXUALITY

  • Sexual Motivation and Behavior
  • Sexuality and Adjustment
  • Sexuality and Harm
  • CHAPTER 14: PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS

  • Understanding Abnormal Behavior
  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Dissociative Disorders
  • Mood Disorders
  • Schizophrenia
  • Personality Disorders
  • CHAPTER 15: THERAPIES

  • Biological Therapies
  • Psychotherapies
  • Sociocutural Approaches and Issues in Treatment
  • Evaluating Therapy
  • CHAPTER 16: HEALTH

  • Explaining Health and Illness
  • Bio-psycho-social Model
  • Nutrition and Eating
  • Exercise
  • Drugs and Addiction
  • The Patient and the Health-Care Setting

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