Adjustment : applying psychology in a complex world / Robert S. Feldman
Imprint
New York : McGraw-Hill, c1989
Descript
xxvii, 571 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
CONTENT
Living in a complex world: adjustment -- Understanding and thinking about the world -- Growing up: human development -- Forces underlying behavior: motivation -- Promoting health and coping with illness -- Stress and coping -- When adjustment fails: maladaptive behavior -- Restoring adjustment: treatment of maladaptive behavior -- Communication -- Friends and lovers: forming relationships -- Together forever?: marriage and divorce -- Sex and life: human sexual behavior -- Helping and hurting: prosocial behavior and aggression -- Working for life: the psychology of work -- Places and spaces of our lives: the environment