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| Each chapter concludes with Summary, Critical Thinking Questions, and Matching Exercise | |
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| Adjusting to Our World | |
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| Case Narrative: Leo Beuerman | |
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| What Is Adjustment? The Changing Landscape: A Challenge to Adjustment | |
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| Understanding Our Physical and Cultural Environments | |
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| Learning about Adjustment | |
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| Organization of This Book | |
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| Learning to Learn | |
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| The Developing Personality | |
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| Case Narrative: Martin Luther King, Jr | |
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| Understanding Personality | |
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| Psychodynamic Approaches to Personality Development | |
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| Behavioral Approaches to Personality Development | |
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| Humanistic Approaches to Personality Development | |
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| Trait Approaches to Personality Development | |
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| Combining Forces: What We Learn from All the Approaches | |
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| Self-Discovery in Adolescence and Adulthood | |
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| Case Narrative: Eleanor Roosevelt | |
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| Self-Definition and Change | |
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| Adolescence | |
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| Adulthood | |
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| Health and Happiness in Adulthood | |
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| Gender | |
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| Case Narrative: Nancy Lieberman-Cline | |
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| What Is Gender? Are Males and Females Really Different? | |
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| Are U.S. Men's and Women's Lives Different? | |
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| How Does Gender Differentiation Arise? | |
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| Gender and Social Interaction | |
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| Where Do We Go from Here? | |
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| In Sickness and in Health: Stress, Health, and Coping | |
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| Case Narrative: Gia Carangi | |
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| Stress: The Thief of Health | |
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| Stress and Health | |
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| Coping with Stress | |
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| Lifestyles That Promote Health | |
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| Struggling for Control | |
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| Case Narrative: Kurt Cobain | |
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| Perceptions of the Locus of Control | |
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| Self-Control in Everyday Living | |
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| Eating Disorders | |
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| Substance Abuse and Dependence | |
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| Control in Personal Relationships | |
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| Psychological Disorders | |
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| Case Narrative: Maxine Mason | |
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| Psychological Disorders and Adjustment | |
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| Diagnosis: What Is Normal? What Is Abnormal? | |
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| Schizophrenic Disorders | |
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| Mood or Affective Disorders | |
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| Stress and Anxiety Disorders | |
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| Dissociative Disorders | |
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| Personality Disorders | |
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| Psychotherapy | |
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| Case Narrative: Sybil | |
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| What Is Psychotherapy? Types of Psychotherapy | |
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| Biological and Physical Therapies | |
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| Change and Healing across Time and Cultures | |
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| Getting to Know and Like Others | |
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| Perceiving Others | |
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| Interpersonal Attraction: Who We Like and Why | |
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| Becoming Intimate | |
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| Case Narrative: Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov | |
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| What Is Love? Forming and Maintaining a Relationship | |
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| Initiating a Relationship: Sampling | |
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| Building a Relationship: Bargaining | |
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| Evaluating a Relationship | |
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| Making a Commitment | |
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| Marriage, Enduring Relationships, and Divorce | |
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| Human Sexuality | |
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| Case Narrative: Madonna | |
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| Sexual Behavior: Then and Now | |
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| The Human Sexual Response | |
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| Sexual Behavior: What, When, and How Often | |
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| Factors Affecting the Joy of Sex | |
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| Birth Control | |
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| Pornography | |
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| Sexual Dysfunctions | |
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| Sexually Transmitted Diseases | |
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| Living in Families | |
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| Case Narrative: The Kennedys | |
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| What Is a Family? What Makes a Happy Family? | |
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| The Family Life Cycle: How Families Grow with Their Memb | |