Publisher's Synopsis
Designed to equip students with a grounding in the current theory, research and practical applications of psychology in their everyday environment, this book challenges students to carefully evaluate their work and the information they receive about psychological adjustment. Providing examples, research summaries, criteria for evaluating self-help resources, a guide to selecting professional help and questionnaires, it seeks to balance theory against application.;The authors have sought to make the text relevant to the readers own world-view and the various questionnaires offer them the chance to see how they compare with others on various dimensions of personality and attitude. Individual chapters discuss the full range of human anxiety, anger and depression and the text is made accessible through the use of boxes to highlight certain information and examples.
