{"product_id":"psychology-of-adjustment-9781483319285","title":"Psychology of Adjustment","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePsychology of Adjustment: The Search for Meaningful Balance\u003c\/strong\u003e combines a student focus with state-of-the-art theory and research to help readers understand and adjust to life in a context of continuous change, challenge, and opportunity. Incorporating existential and third wave behavioral psychology perspectives, the authors emphasize the importance of meaning, mindfulness, and psychologically-informed awareness and skill. An inviting writing style, examples from broad ethnic, cultural, gender, and geographic areas, ample pedagogical support, and cutting-edge topical coverage make this a psychological adjustment text for the 21st century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface About the Author PART 1- Perspectives and Processes Chapter 1- Adjustment: A Life Process    Adjustment    Defining Adjustment    Determining Adjustment in Individuals    Goodness of Fit    Lack of Problems    Positive Life Experiences    Mind–Body Health    ADJUSTMENT IN PRACTICE: Sleep Matters    RESEARCHING ADJUSTMENT: Biofeedback    Types of Change    Change Throughout Human Development    RESEARCHING ADJUSTMENT: Erikson’s Psychosocial \tDevelopment—College to Midlife    RESEARCHING ADJUSTMENT: Positive Psychology    Societal Change    Perceptions of Change    Change Can Be Stressful    Positive and Negative Change Events    Planned and Unplanned Change    Comprehensibility of Change    Traditions Contributing to Adjustment    Interdisciplinary Approaches    Psychoeducation    Organization of This Book    Conclusion Chapter 2- Purpose in Life    Existential Psychology    Change, Impermanence, and Awareness of Death    Experimental Existential Psychology    The Importance of Purpose and Meaning    Coherence    Purpose in Life    Existential Hardiness    RESEARCHING ADJUSTMENT: Academic Hardiness and Grit    Spirituality and Religion    Intrinsic and Extrinsic Orientation (Individual and Social)    ASPIRES (Assessment of Spiritual and Religious Sentiments)    ADJUSTMENT IN PRACTICE: Five-Factor Theory of Personality    Effects of Religion and Spirituality on Health    RESEARCHING ADJUSTMENT: Neurological Effects of Religious Belief    Religion, Spirituality, and Meaning    Note on Our Perspective    Autonomy, Choice, and Free Will    ADJUSTMENT IN PRACTICE: Creating Choice Conditions    Conclusion Chapter 3- Community Contexts    Mentoring    Social Support    Types of Social Support    Social Networks    Indegree Centrality and Brokerage    Basic Rules of Networking    Social Capital    The Importance of Situation or Context    Person by Situation Interactions    Ecological Psychology and Behavioral Settings    RESEARCHING ADJUSTMENT: Context and Identity    Discriminative Setting Stimuli    Two Powerful Social Effects    Conformity    Obedience to Authority    ADJUSTMENT IN PRACTICE: In-Group, Out-Group    Culture    Collectivist Versus Individualistic Cultures    Cultural Complexes    Developmental Psychopathology    RESEARCHING ADJUSTMENT: Gene X Environment Interaction    Resilience    The Maturation and Socialization Process    Conclusion Chapter 4- Experience and Learning    Pavlovian Conditioning    The Basics of Pavlovian Conditioning    Preparedness in Behavior Acquisition    Operant Conditioning    Discriminative Stimulus    Response, Behavior, or Operant    RESEARCHING ADJUSTMENT: Hebb’s Rule    Consequences: Feedback, Reinforcement, Punishment, or Nothing    ADJUSTMENT IN PRACTICE: Avoidance Learning    Consequences That Are Predictable But Not Always There    ADJUSTMENT IN PRACTICE: Premack Principle    Shaping    ADJUSTMENT IN PRACTICE: Self-Control    Cognitive Behaviorism    Social Learning    Modeling    Perceived Self-Efficacy    Collective Efficacy    Learning Probabilities (Statistical Learning    Implicit and Explicit Learning    Cognitive Development    Jean Piaget    Lev Vygotsky    Active Learning    Conclusion Chapter 5- Mindfulness: A Path to Awareness    Mindfulness and Meditation    Defining Mindfulness    Defining Meditation    ADJUSTMENT IN PRACTICE: Meditation Exercise    History of Psychology and Mindfulness Research and Practice    Origins of Mindfulness Practice    Research on Meditation and Mindfulness    Bridging Science and the Meditation Experience    Mindfulness in Practice    Mindfulness and Nonjudgmental Awareness    Mindfulness Promoting Self-Regulation    ADJUSTMENT IN PRACTICE: A Week of Mindfulness    Mindfulness Promoting Compassion    ADJUSTMENT IN PRACTICE: Create a Loving-Kindness Meditation    On the Mindful Path: Moving Toward Action    The Beginning of Action and Change    The Foundation for Action    ADJUSTMENT IN PRACTICE: What Do I Value?    The Path to Change    Moving Toward Commitment and Change    Conclusion Chapter 6- Stress, Health, and Well-Being    Stress    Stressors    RESEARCHING ADJUSTMENT: Measuring Stress    Stress Processes    Stress Reactions    Coping    Emotion-Focused and Problem Solving–Focused Coping    Active Coping and Avoidant Coping    Coping With Controllable Versus Uncontrollable Stressors    Coping With Culturally Related Stressors    Microaggressions    ADJUSTMENT IN PRACTICE: Examples of Microaggressions    Culturally Relevant Coping    Healthy Stress Management    Social Support    Physical Touch    Meditation    Exercise    Self-Help    Good Stress Versus Bad Stress    Bad Stress    Good Stress    Growth Through Adversity    Reframing    RESEARCHING ADJUSTMENT: Stress and Technology    Health and Well-Being    Diet and Nutrition    Physical Activity and Exercise    Avoiding Substance Use    Conclusion PART 2- Applications Chapter 7- Social Relationships    Friendship and Well-Being    First Friendships    Childhood Friendships    Friendship and Diversity    Friendships During Adolescence    RESEARCHING ADJUSTMENT: Similarity and Friendships    Friendships and Social Media    Adult Friendships    Friendship Maintenance    Building Blocks of Relationships    Empathy and Compassion    ADJUSTMENT IN PRACTICE: Teaching Compassion    Altruism and Prosocial Behavior    Loneliness    Conclusion Chapter 8- Romance and Intimacy    The Seeds of Romance    Casual Sexual Arrangements    Committed Partnerships    Healthy Intimate Relationships    ADJUSTMENT IN PRACTICE: Myths About Good Relationships    Sexuality in Intimate Relationships    Gay and Lesbian Relationships    Intimacy Problems    Infidelity    Online Cheating Versus Off-Line Cheating    To Cheat or Not to Cheat    Relationship Violence    Ending Relationships    RESEARCHING ADJUSTMENT: Predictors of Divorce    Relationship Maintenance    Conclusion Chapter 9- School    School’s Importance in the Life of a Child    Fundamentals of School Success in Preschool and Kindergarten    ADJUSTMENT IN PRACTICE: Head Start    Individual and Environmental Factors Related to Academic Success    Self-Beliefs    Motivation    School Belonging    ADJUSTMENT IN PRACTICE: Bullying    Teacher Beliefs    Teachers’ Encouragement and Praise    RESEARCHING ADJUSTMENT: Intelligence Testing    School Climate    School Size    School Resources    RESEARCHING ADJUSTMENT: School Dropout    The College Experience    First-Generation College Students    Understanding College Success Factors    RESEARCHING ADJUSTMENT: TRIO Programs    Helping College Students Succeed    Mentoring    ADJUSTMENT IN PRACTICE: How to Find and Gain a Mentor    Conclusion Chapter 10- Work and Vocation    The Psychological Importance of Work    Work Across the Life Span    Adolescence    College    Career Indecision    First Job    RESEARCHING ADJUSTMENT: Involuntary Job Loss    Midcareer    Retirement    Demographic Factors in Vocational Development    RESEARCHING ADJUSTMENT: STEM Careers    Theories of Vocational Decision Making    Theory of Occupational Circumscription and Compromise    Social Cognitive Career Theory    Theory of Person–Environment Fit    ADJUSTMENT IN PRACTICE: Holland’s Theory    Rewards and Risks of Work    Flow    Job Stress    Dealing With Work Stress    Conclusion Chapter 11- Money    The History of Money    Learning About Money    Developmental Aspects of Money    RESEARCHING ADJUSTMENT: Social Class    Behavioral Economics    Comparisons    Two Decision-Making Processes    RESEARCHING ADJUSTMENT: Money’s Effect on Us    Money Skills    Buying    Seeing Free Is Tempting    Slowing Down and Thinking    Shopping When Tired    Anticipating Pleasure    Determining the Worth of Things Bought and Things Lost    Delaying the Pain    ADJUSTMENT IN PRACTICE: Credit Cards and Loans    Saving    Parental Influence on Saving    Identification With the Future Self    ADJUSTMENT IN PRACTICE: Present–Future Similarity Test    The Powerful Self    Regular and Automatic Savings    Money and Happiness    Conclusion Chapter 12- Aging    Life Expectancies    Age-Related Changes    Physical Changes    Early Adulthood    Middle Adulthood    Older Adulthood    RESEARCHING ADJUSTMENT: How Old Is Old?    Cognitive Changes    Early Adulthood    Middle Adulthood    Older Adulthood    Socioemotional Changes of Aging    Identity Changes    Generativity and Meaning    Sense of Control    Social Support    ADJUSTMENT IN PRACTICE: Decreasing Loneliness    The Third Age    Retirement    Role Redefinition    Finances    Successful Aging    Adjusting to Losses    Grieving    Aging in Place    RESEARCHING ADJUSTMENT: Retirement Communities and Nursing Homes    Conclusion Chapter 13- Dysfunction and Maladjustment    Section One: Mental Illness    Supernatural, Somatogenic, and Psychogenic Explanations    Mental Illness Today    Anxiety Disorders    Origins of Anxiety Disorders    Mood Disorders    Origins of Mood Disorders    Psychotic Disorders    Origins of Psychosis    Eating Disorders    Origins of Eating Disorders    Substance Abuse Disorders and Addictions    Origins of Addictions    RESEARCHING ADJUSTMENT: Suicide—The Most Drastic Choice    Neurodevelopmental Disorders    Attention Deficit Disorders    Origins of Attention Deficit Disorders    Autism Spectrum Disorder    Origins of Autism Spectrum Disorder    Section Two: Treatment of Mental Illness    Early Treatment: Asylums    Psychotherapy: A Psychogenic Approach    ADJUSTMENT IN PRACTICE: The Experience of Seeking Professional Help    Psychosurgeries and Psychotropic Medications: Somatogenic Approaches    Psychotropic Surgeries    RESEARCHING ADJUSTMENT: Brain Stimulation Therapies    Psychotropic Medications    ADJUSTMENT IN PRACTICE: Making a Choice to Try Medication    The Future of Mental Health    Conclusion Chapter 14- The Search for Balance and the Future    Personal Challenges of the Future    The Dynamics of Person and Place    Agency and Communion    Personal Perspectives    Societal Challenges of the Future    Diversity    Demographics of Age and Ethnicity    Gender and Sexual Orientation    Effects of Diversity    Reducing Reactivity and Increasing Appreciation    Travel    RESEARCHING ADJUSTMENT: Multicultural Experience    Classes    Being Happy    Common Goals    Desire to Change    Contact    Loving Kindness Meditation    Declassification, Reclassification, Individuation    Changing Technologies    A Brief History of Technology    Technology Around the Globe    Interpersonal Relationships    Negative and Positive Effects of Today’s Technologies    Narcissism    Increasing Isolation    Negative Self-Perceptions    Internet Addiction    ADJUSTMENT APPLICATION: Steps to Healthy Limits in the Use of Technology    Positive Aspects of the Internet    Conclusion    ADJUSTMENT IN PRACTICE: The Power of the Narrative Glossary References Index","brand":"SAGE Publications Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040558022999,"sku":"9781483319285","price":121.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781483319285.jpg?v=1750947110","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/psychology-of-adjustment-9781483319285","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}