00000cam a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773861544589 Buklod 20080328111921.0 j|||||||||||||| | ta 161204s1986 mnua rb |||1 u|eng d 031493183X (iLib)UPBAG-00002409491 DLC BAG rda eng BF 335 G69 Grasha, Anthony F. author. Adjustment and competence concepts and applications Anthony F. Grasha, Daniel S. Kirschenbaum. St. Paul, Minnesota West Publishing Company ©1986. xix, 511 pages, 41 in various pagings illustrations (some color) 27 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 1-20 (3rd group) and index. Part one: Understanding adaptation -- Chapter 1: Approaches to adaptation, adjustment, and competence -- Characteristics of adaptation -- Change in our lives force us to adapt -- Close-up on research 1.1: Developmental changes and life goals -- Three ways to meet life's challenges -- Exercises 1.1: Assessing how you currently adapt -- Approaches to understanding adaptation: Medical, learning, community, and self-actualization models -- Exercise 1.2: Examining our approaches to adaptation -- The medical approach -- Close-up on people 1.1: The use of medications and insight-oriented therapy to help people with problems in living -- The learning approach -- Close-up on research 1.2: Factors associated with a successful adaptation to life -- Close-up on people 1.2: The basic ID: a case report -- The community and group approach -- The self actualization approach -- Close-up on people 1:3: Maladjustment, Adjustment, and Competence in the self-actualization model -- Consequences of having approaches to adaptation -- Close-up on research 1.3: The effects of different approaches to adaptation -- Self-help summary. Part two: Basic elements in adaptation -- Chapter 2: Environmental, Cognitive, and Social Influences on behavior -- Environmental influences on behavior -- The role of antecedent stimuli -- Classical conditioning in everyday life -- Close-up on research 2.1: Examples of counter conditioning -- The role of consequent stimuli -- The role of natural and planned consequences -- Using natural consequences -- Using planned consequences -- Close-up on research 2.2: Improving grades with monthly planning -- Cognitive influences on adaptation -- Our memory system -- The problem of forgetting -- Mental imagery -- Close-up on people 2.2 The memory of an elephant -- Exercise 2.1: Using a mnemonic system -- Social influences on learning -- Imagination learning -- developing skills and expressing emotions -- Close-up on research 2.3: Television: Its not all bad news -- Using Imitation learning in your life -- Exercise 2.2: Using modeling principles in your daily life -- Self-help summary. Chapter 3: Motivation -- Motives -- Basic characteristics -- Close-up on research 3.1: Final exams as an incentive to study -- Exercise 3.1: Needs and incentives in your daily life -- Types of motives -- Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation -- Basic and growth-oriented motives -- Reducing and increasing tension as motives -- Close-up on people 3.1: Has the world gone completely mad? -- Close-up on research 3.2: Characteristics of high and low sensation seekers -- Exercise 3.2: Identifying your sensation seeking preferences -- Conscious and unconscious motives -- Important social motives -- Affiliation -- Close-up on research 3.3: Assessing power needs -- Effects of power on our relationships -- Methods used to express power -- Close-up on people 3.2: Power ploys: The subtle use of power -- Achievement -- Increasing the level of achievement motivation -- Self-help summary . Chapter 4: Belief systems -- Important beliefs in our lives -- Attitudes -- Characteristics of attitudes -- Changing attitudes -- Stereotypes and prejudicial attitudes -- Close-up on research 4.1: The effect of using stereotypes -- Values -- Exercise 4.2: The presence of values in our lives -- Close-up on research 4.2: The great American value challenge -- Characteristics of values -- Expectations -- Exercise 4.3: What you expect to see is what you see -- Expectations and behavior -- Close-up on research 4.3: The effects of drinking alcoholic beverages depends on what you think -- Close-up on research 4.4 Self-fulfilling prophecies at sea -- Locus control -- Close-up on people 4.2: Getting control of life with a lucky charm -- beliefs about ourselves -- Characteristics of our self-image -- Close-up on research 4.5: Dormitory living enhances your self-image -- Modifying our self-image -- Close-up on people 4.3: Gaining self-confidence and recovering from a heart attack -- Self-help summary. Part Three: Developmental Themes -- Chapter 5: Developmental sex roles -- Becoming a man or a woman -- Role s and sex roles -- Developing a sex role -- biological factors -- Close-up on research 5.1: Perceptions of differences in sex role characteristics of men and women -- Close-up on people 5.1: The influence of biological and environmental processes on sex roles -- Environmental influences: Culture -- Close-up on people 5.2: Television, sex roles, and women -- Environmental influences: learning processes -- sex differences and sex-role stereotypes -- Exercise 5.1: How well do you know fellow man (or women)? -- Men's and women's personalities -- Effects of personality stereotypes -- close-ups on research 5.3: the plight of the working mother -- Interpersonal relationships -- Effects of interpersonal relationship stereotypes -- communication skills -- Effects of communication stereotypes -- cognitive skills -- Effects of cognitive stereotypes -- Coping with sex differences and stereotypes -- Integrating masculine and feminine characteristics -- Explore new ways of living your sex role -- Close-up on people 5.2: if i were a carpenter -- Challenge sexiest practices -- Self-help summary. Chapter 6: Developing important interpersonal relationships -- Developing friendships -- Benefits of having friends -- Friendships development in stages -- Close-up on research 6.1: The bonds of friendship -- Factors that attract people to each other -- Difficulties in making friends -- Exercise 6.1: How to soften and display an interest in other people -- Developing intimate relationships -- Falling in love -- Love and marriage -- Close -up 6.1: Palimony: The cost of living in sin -- Exercise 6.2 Determining your style of loving -- Stages in progressing through intimate relationships -- Maintaining intimate relationships -- Coping with romantic love -- Adjusting to companionate love -- Handling jealousy -- Close-up on research 6.2: Managing companionate love -- Close-up on people 6.2: The wrath of jealousy -- Managing conflict and anger -- Close-up on research 6.3: The role of money, work, and sex in the lives of American couples -- Separating from intimate relationships -- living without intimacy: coping with loneliness -- self-help summary. Chapter 7: Coping with aging, death, and dying -- Stereotypes of aging -- Exercise 7.1: Myths and facts about aging -- The image problems stereotypes produce -- overcoming the image problem -- Close-up on people 7.1: The over-the-hill gang rides again -- adapting to changes with age -- Changes in bodily functioning -- changes in mental process -- Close-up on research 7.1: Your life style may be bad for your health -- Close-up on research 7.2: Individual differences in memory exist among older individuals -- Personality development and change -- Life-style changes -- The prospect for prolonging your life -- Exercise 7.2: calculate your life expectancy -- Death and dying -- Personal beliefs -- Close-up research 7.3: Is there life after death? -- Coping with thoughts dying -- The emotional side of death -- Anxiety and its causes -- Grief -- Coping with grief -- Interpersonal aspects of dying -- Exercise 7.3: Relating to a dying individual -- Close-up on people 7.2: The amish way of death -- Self-help summary. Part Four: Wellness; becoming healthier and happier -- Chapter 8: Food and drugs -- Food -- The current American diet: Too much of a good thing? -- Effects of food -- Problems of eating -- Obesity -- Exercise 8.1: How to measure the nutritional quality of your diet -- Bulimia -- close-up on people 8.1: Jan's Bulimia -- Anorexia Nervosa -- Close-up on research 8.1: A helpful treatment for Bulimia -- Close-up on people 8.2: Ann's drive for thinness -- Drugs -- Definition and assessment -- Exercise 8.2: use of drugs in everyday living -- caffeine -- Alcohol -- Marijuana -- Nicotine -- Close-up on people 8.3: Forty-five years of failure to quit smoking: the case of Sigmund Freud -- Self-help summary. Chapter 9: Self-regulation of exercise and sports -- The five phases of self-regulation -- Problem identification -- Commitment -- Execution -- Environmental management -- generalization -- Applications of the self-regulation model to exercise and sports -- problem identification -- Close-up on research 9.1: ca running become a positive addiction? -- Commitment -- Exercise 9.1: The commitment questionnaire -- Exercise 9.2: A balance sheet procedure for increasing commitment to a goal -- Close-up on research 9.2: Programmed versus life-style exercising -- Execution -- Managing sport environments -- Generalization -- Close-up on people 9.1: Turning frustrate into effective performance in hockey -- Self-help summary. Chapter 10: Human sexuality -- Exercise 10.1: Sexual mythology -- Sexual myths and facts -- masturbation -- pornography -- close-up on research 10.1: Some potentially dangerous effects of sexual violence in movies -- Orgasm -- Homosexuality -- Rape -- Close-up on people 10.1: The gay Dilemma: effects of AIDS on the lifestyle of gay men -- Sexual intercourse during menstruation and pregnancy -- sexual and aging -- sexual problems -- Types of common sexual problems -- causes of common sexual problems -- Close-up 10.2: Personal history and sex: the case of Mrs.A -- Treatment of sexual problems -- Self-help for sexual problems -- Close-up on research 10.2: Effectiveness of a self-directed premature ejaculation -- self-help summary Part Five: Emotions -- Chapter 11: Stress -- Stress and stressor-definitions -- Degree of stress -- Mild stress -- Severe stress -- Close-up on people 11.1: Post-tramautic stress disorders in veterans from two different wars -- Stress over time -- Types of stressors -- Unlpeasant stimuli -- Changes in our lives -- Exercise 11.1: Life events as stressors -- Close-up on research 11.1: Impact of traumatic events -- Goal conflicts -- Job stressors -- Exercise 11.2: Work environment that causes bornout -- managing stress -- Personality characteristics -- Social support -- Stress management skills -- Exercises 11.3: Using stress management skills to improve your performance on exams -- Close-up on research 11.2: Preparing for the stressor -- Conclusions -- self-help summary. Chapter 12: Anxiety and depression -- Anxiety and fear -- Definitions and characteristics -- Close-up on research 12.1 Common fears -- Measures of anxiety and fear -- Exercise 12.1: Assessing anxiety -- Causes of anxiety and fear -- Close-up on people 12.1: From terror tricks: successful treatment of a dog phobic -- Exercise 12.1: Comparing common and uncommon phobic objects -- Depression -- Definition and characteristics -- Causes -- Close-up on research 12.2: What to do when feeling depressed -- Effects of depression -- Exercise 12.3: Suicide notes -- Close-up on people 12.2: Freddie Prinze-The most unhappy funny man: A case study -- Sef-help summary. Part six: Strategies for change -- Chapter 13: Helping others-Helping ourselves -- Types of helpers -- Friends as helpers -- Beyond friends: five additional options -- Close-up on people 13.1: Self-help for bruxism -- Close-up on research 13.1: Self-help for weight reduction: does it help? -- Pyschotheraphy: What's in it for you? -- Behaviors of effective helpers and helpees -- Therapist-client interview #1: Mary and art -- Therapist- Client interview #2: Sam and Slyvia -- Expertness -- Exercise 13.1: The quality of therapists: rating of Mary and Sam -- Emphaty -- Warmth -- Congruence -- Good clients and helpees -- Exercise 13.2: Effective helpee behaviors -- Sef-help summary. Chapter 14: Psychotherapies -- The new language of psychotherapies -- A method of comparing different therapies -- Psychoanalysis -- Origins -- Close-up on research 14.1: The theoretical orientations of clinical psychologists in the 1970's and 1980's -- Goals -- Methods -- Effectiveness -- Modern psychoanalytically oriented therapies -- Client- centered theraphy -- Origins -- Close-up on people 14.1: A psychoanalytically oriented case study -- Goals -- Methods -- Effectiveness -- Close-up on people 14.2: Carl Rogers and the silent young man -- Exercise 14.1: Suggestions for improving your level of self-actualization -- Behavior therapy -- Origins -- Goals -- Methods -- Exercises 14.2: Using the ABCDEs of rational reconstructuring -- Effectiveness -- Conclusions -- Self-help summary. Adjustment (Psychology) Performance. Kirschenbaum, Daniel S. 1950- author. FO UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN BF 335 G69 Book