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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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Case Narrative | |
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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 | |