Psychology for Living Adjustment, Growth, and Behavior Today

Summary: 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. [read more]