Coping With Life in the 21st Century - Couverture souple

Allen, Bem

 
9780595162000: Coping With Life in the 21st Century

Synopsis

Coping With Life in the 21st Century is written by the author of nine other books and is about living a more fulfilling, rewarding, and stress-free life. The author is a successful textbook writer whose books are easy and enjoyable to read. Coping is scientifically based and comprehensive. The following is a partial list of the topics covered in Coping: common sense, time management, test anxiety, career preparation, applying for a job, self-esteem, conscience, self-presentation, self-handicapping, Erikson stages of development, death and dying, happiness, Freud, Jung, Adler, Horney, Skinner, Kelly, Bandura, Rotter, Rogers, getting and keeping friends, gender differences in friendships, the two laws of friendship, falling love, jealousy, love as a mistaken emotion, disappointment with marriage, successful marriages, anger and its management, the benefits of anger, determinants of aggression, preventing aggression, sexual harassment, the anatomy of sex, teen sex, sex myths, non-standard sexual behavior, racism, sexism, beautyism, stereotyping, subtle discrimination, ignoring the odds, saving your own life, slips of the tongue, false memories, conformity, obedience, compliance with sales techniques, loneliness, alleviating loneliness, normal and chronic depression, youth suicide, weight gain and loss, health and weight, the only way to lose weight and hope to keep it off, smoking, alcohol abuse, stressors, traumatic life events, Type A personality, anxiety, defense mechanisms, biofeedback, hypnosis, stress inoculation, time perspective, assertion, non-assertion, learning assertion, benefits of exercise, building an effective exercise program, Ellis' Rational Emotive Therapy, defining "abnormal," phobias, obsessive compulsive disorder, Schizoid personality, antisocial personality, borderline personality, major depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, psychoactive drugs, psycho-surgery, electroconvulsive shock treatment, and se

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Coping With Life in the 21st Century is written by the author of nine other books and is about living a more fulfilling, rewarding, and stress-free life. The author is a successful textbook writer whose books are easy and enjoyable to read. Coping is scientifically based and comprehensive. The following is a partial list of the topics covered in Coping: common sense, time management, test anxiety, career preparation, applying for a job, self-esteem, conscience, self-presentation, self-handicapping, Erikson stages of development, death and dying, happiness, Freud, Jung, Adler, Horney, Skinner, Kelly, Bandura, Rotter, Rogers, getting and keeping friends, gender differences in friendships, the two laws of friendship, falling love, jealousy, love as a mistaken emotion, disappointment with marriage, successful marriages, anger and its management, the benefits of anger, determinants of aggression, preventing aggression, sexual harassment, the anatomy of sex, teen sex, sex myths, non-standard sexual behavior, racism, sexism, beautyism, stereotyping, subtle discrimination, ignoring the odds, saving your own life, slips of the tongue, false memories, conformity, obedience, compliance with sales techniques, loneliness, alleviating loneliness, normal and chronic depression, youth suicide, weight gain and loss, health and weight, the only way to lose weight and hope to keep it off, smoking, alcohol abuse, stressors, traumatic life events, Type A personality, anxiety, defense mechanisms, biofeedback, hypnosis, stress inoculation, time perspective, assertion, non-assertion, learning assertion, benefits of exercise, building an effective exercise program, Ellis' Rational Emotive Therapy, defining "abnormal," phobias, obsessive compulsive disorder, Schizoid personality, antisocial personality, borderline personality, major depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, psychoactive drugs, psycho-surgery, electroconvulsive shock treatment, and se

Biographie de l'auteur

Bem P. Allen, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and The Society for Personality Assessment. He has authored 10 book, 50 journal publications, and 60 convention presentations. Recently, he received the highest honor bestowed by his university. His textbooks have been read by many thousands of students.

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