Psychology for Living: Adjustment, Growth, and Behavior Today / Edition 11
Helps readers apply psychological insights to their own lives.

The eleventh edition of Psychology for Living: Adjustment, Growth, and Behavior Today is designed for students interested in applying psychological insights and principles to their own lives. The text helps readers achieve a better understanding of themselves and others.

The scope of Psychology for Living draws material from the major perspectives of psychology, including the psychodynamic, ecological, cognitive-behavioral, and humanistic viewpoints. The goal of the text is based firmly on increasing readers’ understanding as well as their knowledge about adjustment, in order that they may continue learning and growing on their own.

This text is available in a variety of formats — digital and print. Check your favorite digital provider for your etext, including Coursesmart, Kindle, Nook, and more.

Learning Goals

Upon completing this book, readers will be able to:

  • Apply psychological insights and principles to their own lives.
  • Increase their knowledge on adjustment, in order to continue learning and growing on their own.
  • Understand themselves and others better.

This Book a la Carte Edition is an unbound, three-hole punched, loose-leaf version of the textbook and provides students the opportunity to personalized their book by incorporating their own notes and taking the portion of the book they need to class – all at a fraction of the bound book price.

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Psychology for Living: Adjustment, Growth, and Behavior Today / Edition 11
Helps readers apply psychological insights to their own lives.

The eleventh edition of Psychology for Living: Adjustment, Growth, and Behavior Today is designed for students interested in applying psychological insights and principles to their own lives. The text helps readers achieve a better understanding of themselves and others.

The scope of Psychology for Living draws material from the major perspectives of psychology, including the psychodynamic, ecological, cognitive-behavioral, and humanistic viewpoints. The goal of the text is based firmly on increasing readers’ understanding as well as their knowledge about adjustment, in order that they may continue learning and growing on their own.

This text is available in a variety of formats — digital and print. Check your favorite digital provider for your etext, including Coursesmart, Kindle, Nook, and more.

Learning Goals

Upon completing this book, readers will be able to:

  • Apply psychological insights and principles to their own lives.
  • Increase their knowledge on adjustment, in order to continue learning and growing on their own.
  • Understand themselves and others better.

This Book a la Carte Edition is an unbound, three-hole punched, loose-leaf version of the textbook and provides students the opportunity to personalized their book by incorporating their own notes and taking the portion of the book they need to class – all at a fraction of the bound book price.

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Psychology for Living: Adjustment, Growth, and Behavior Today / Edition 11

Psychology for Living: Adjustment, Growth, and Behavior Today / Edition 11

Psychology for Living: Adjustment, Growth, and Behavior Today / Edition 11

Psychology for Living: Adjustment, Growth, and Behavior Today / Edition 11

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Helps readers apply psychological insights to their own lives.

The eleventh edition of Psychology for Living: Adjustment, Growth, and Behavior Today is designed for students interested in applying psychological insights and principles to their own lives. The text helps readers achieve a better understanding of themselves and others.

The scope of Psychology for Living draws material from the major perspectives of psychology, including the psychodynamic, ecological, cognitive-behavioral, and humanistic viewpoints. The goal of the text is based firmly on increasing readers’ understanding as well as their knowledge about adjustment, in order that they may continue learning and growing on their own.

This text is available in a variety of formats — digital and print. Check your favorite digital provider for your etext, including Coursesmart, Kindle, Nook, and more.

Learning Goals

Upon completing this book, readers will be able to:

  • Apply psychological insights and principles to their own lives.
  • Increase their knowledge on adjustment, in order to continue learning and growing on their own.
  • Understand themselves and others better.

This Book a la Carte Edition is an unbound, three-hole punched, loose-leaf version of the textbook and provides students the opportunity to personalized their book by incorporating their own notes and taking the portion of the book they need to class – all at a fraction of the bound book price.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780205909445
Publisher: Pearson Education
Publication date: 01/06/2013
Edition description: 11th ed.
Pages: 464
Product dimensions: 7.90(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Karen Duffy is a Distinguished Service Professor—emerita, at the State University of New York College at Geneseo. She received her Ph.D. in social and personality psychology from Michigan State University. Dr. Duffy served as a family mediator for the New York Unified Court System. She has also served on the executive committee and as the chief instructor for the training insti-tute for the New York State Employee Assistance Program (EAP), as well as on the board of di-rectors for a shelter for domestic violence and on an educational committee for a family planning agency. She has consulted to a variety of work settings on stress management, EAPs, and other work issues. She is a member of the American Psychological Society. Dr. Duffy has written sev-eral other books, including Community Mediation: A Handbook for Practitioners and Research-ers and Community Psychology. She also edits several hard-copy and web-based annual editions for another publisher, on topics including psychology of personality, social psychology, intro-ductory psychology, and adjustment. She has held two Fulbright Fellowships to St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia. While in Russia, she worked with AIDS International, several children’s shelters, and other community agencies. More recently, she completed a hu-manitarian aid trip to Mongolia.

Steven J. Kirsh is a Professor of Psychology at The State University of New York at Geneseo. Dr. Kirsh’s primary areas of research focus on the influence of violent media on emo-tion recognition and social information processing. He has published Children, Adolescents, and Media Violence: A Critical Look at the Research (2006) and Media and Youth: A Developmental Perspective (2010) as well as numerous scientific articles and book chapters.

Table of Contents

In this Section:


Brief Table of Contents
Full Table of Contents

1. Brief Table of Contents


Chapter 1: Self-Direction in a Changing World
Chapter 2: The Puzzle of Childhood
Chapter 3: Affirmative Aging — Adulthood
Chapter 4: Seeking Selfhood
Chapter 5: Toward Better Health
Chapter 6: Taking Charge
Chapter 7: Managing Motives and Emotions
Chapter 8: Making and Keeping Friends
Chapter 9: Leader or Follower?
Chapter 10: At Work and Play
Chapter 11: Sexuality
Chapter 12: Love and Commitment
Chapter 13: Stress
Chapter 14: Understanding Mental Disorders
Chapter 15: If You Go for Help
Chapter 16: Good Grief and Death

2. Full Table of Contents PART 1: Introduction


Chapter 1: Self-Direction in a Changing World


•Social Change
•The Challenge of Self-Direction
•Themes of Personal Growth

PART 2: Becoming


Chapter 2: The Puzzle of Childhood


•Perspectives on Child Development
•Key Foundational Elements of Childhood


Chapter 3: Affirmative Aging—Adulthood


•Adult Development
•Decisions, Decisions, Decisions—Early Adulthood
•Same Old, Same Old?—Middle Adulthood
•Aging Gracefully—Late Adulthood


Chapter 4: Seeking Selfhood


•What Is Self-Concept?
•The Components of the Self
•Core Characteristics of Self-Concept
•The Self-Concept and Personal Growth


Chapter 5: Toward Better Health


•Body Image
•Health and the Mind–Body Relationship
•Coping with Illness
•Promoting Wellness


Chapter 6: Taking Charge


•Personal Control
•Decision Making
•Decisions and Personal Growth


Chapter 7: Managing Motives and Emotions


•Understanding Motivation
•Understanding Emotions

PART 4: Being Social


Chapter 8: Making and Keeping Friends


•Meeting People
•Keeping Friends
•When It's Hard to Make Friends


Chapter 9: Groups: Belonging, Following, and Leading


•Kinds of Groups
•Creating and Joining Groups
•What Goes on in Groups?
•When Groups Go Wrong
•Group Leadership


Chapter 10: At Work and Play


•At Work
•At Play

PART 5: Being Intimate


Chapter 11: Sexuality


•Sexuality and Shared Partnerships
•Sexual Responsiveness
•Sexual Orientation
•Practical Issues


Chapter 12: Love and Commitment


•Love is a Many Splendored (and Defined) Thing
•Finding Love
•Marriage and Other Committed Relationships
•Adjusting to Intimate Relationships
•Divorce and Its Consequences

PART 6: Facing Challenges


Chapter 13: Stress!


•Oh No!—Understanding Stress
•Yikes!—Reactions to Stress
•Phew!—Managing Stress


Chapter 14: Understanding Mental Disorders


•Psychological Disorders
•Anxiety Disorders
•Mood Disorders
•Other Disorders
•Applying This to Yourself


Chapter 15: If You Go for Help


•Psychotherapy: What is it? Who Uses it?
•Insight Therapies—The Talking Cure
•Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies
•Other Approaches to Treatment
•How Well Does Therapy Work?
•Finding Help


Chapter 16: Death, Dying, and Grief


•Death and Dying
•Life and Death in Perspective
•Bereavement and Grief

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