Prentice Hall Psychology for Living: Adjustment, Growth, and Behavior Today

For courses on Adjustment, Coping, Personal Growth, Mental Health, and Applied Psychology. This careful and balanced blend of personalization, advice, and science is intended for those who are interested in applying psychological insights and principles to their own lives as a way of achieving a better understanding of themselves and of living more effectively. By underscoring several important societal (not just personal) themes, the reader is compelled to focus on other people as much as the self. 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. From the Back Cover This book is for people who want to apply psychological insights and principles to their own lives as a way of understanding themselves better and living more effectively. In this new edition of the leading, research-based adjustment text, Karen Duffy once again revises this pedagogically rich introduction to the psychology of personal adjustment. Among many new features are chapters on technology, partner abuse and sexual victimization, and emotional intelligence. The text addresses major perspectives of psychology, including psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, and humanistic, and draws from research in clinical, personality, social, and developmental psychology as well as cognitive, biological, and health psychology. About the Author Karen Duffy is a Distinguished Service Professor at the State University of New York, College at Geneseo. She received her Ph.D. in social and personality psychology from Michigan State University and is a family mediator for the New York Unified Court System. Dr. Duffy has authored several other books, including Community Mediation: A Handbook for Practitioners and Researchers and Community Psychology. Eastwood Atwater was a psychology professor at Montgomery County Community College and lectured at Gwynedd-Mercy College. He also conducted a private practice in psychology. His Ph.D. was from the University of Chicago, where he studied with Carl Rogers. Prior to his death in 1996, he authored books including Adolescence, Fourth Edition, and Human Relations.