Mary Zahm

Broschiertes Buch

Create Your Ideal Life

Applied Psychology of Personal Adjustment and Growth

Beschreibung

Some pursue happiness - Others create it! - Anonymous The chief purpose of Create Your Ideal Life is to empower you to proactively (intentionally and consciously) and continually create your ideal life in a joyful and balanced fashion by following the holistic (emphasizing the importance of the whole and the interdependence of its parts) Life Creation Process described in it. Following the Life Creation Process will help you to gain the level of self-understanding required to optimize the quality of your life and achieve personal growth. As you read this book, you will be introduced to the key concepts of applied psychology of personal adjustment and growth. The term applied indicates that the material provided is practical and that you can readily use the concepts provided to create and control your self and your life. The words psychology of personal adjustment indicate that one focus of the book is upon "... the individual's response to the physical, psychological, and social demands of the self, other people, and the environment" (Napoli, Kilbridge & Tebbs, 1996, p. 4). The words psychology of personal growth indicate that another focus is upon "... the process by which the individual changes his or her thoughts, feelings, or behaviors regarding the self, others, or the environment" (Napoli and others, 1996, p. 4). Additionally, you will learn effective strategies for exploring life choices and making decisions, managing life changes, changing self-defeating beliefs and habits, coping effectively with stress, and developing effective interpersonal relationships. You will also discover the important role that essential beliefs and core values play in the decision-making process and the problems that can arise out of value conflicts. I have provided true stories from my own life and from the lives of my family members, friends, and students to clarify and underscore key points. The stories are all true. However, some of the names were changed to protect each person's privacy, except in cases where permission was granted to use the person's real name. Throughout this book, I have used a cinematic (pertaining to the movie industry) analogy to explain the spiritual, psychological, physical, and social issues involved in personal adjustment and growth across the life span. I have used the cinematic analogy to both simplify and dramatize the key concepts in the holistic Life Creation Process in order to make them easier for you to understand, learn to use, and remember. In addition to the mnemonic (memory-enhancing) value of the cinematic analogy, I believe it makes the complex concepts involved in the holistic Life Creation Process easy to discuss with and teach other people. Most people are already familiar with the meaning of most of the movie industry terms used such as star, actor, screen image, script, cast, producer, director, and sequel, and they understand how all the key aspects of a movie can either contribute to its success or ruin the entire project. Therefore, using the cinematic terms makes it easier for people to comprehend how all the key aspects of their Ideal Future Life must be harmonious in order to achieve the desired results. As you complete the Life Creation Process Exercises, you will be directed to analyze the key aspects of your Present Life and create a script for your Ideal Future Life using techniques that are similar to those employed by successful movie stars, directors, producers, set designers, and script writers (e.g., DiTillio.;, 1995). You will also be guided to identify the Transitional Life goals that you will need to achieve in order to segue from living your Present Life to living your Ideal Future Life.

Autor

Joan H. Rollins, Ph.D. is Professor Emerita and a former Chair of the Psychology Department at Rhode Island College, Providence, Rhode Island. Previously, she served as a member of the Rhode Island Board of Examiners for Psychology, as President of the Rhode Island Psychological Association, President of the New England Psychological Association, and as a member of the Council of Representatives of the American Psychological Association. Dr. Rollins is the author of Women's Mind's/Women's Bodies: The Psychology of Women in a Biosocial Context (Prentice Hall, 1996) and editor of Hidden Minorities (University Press of America, 1981), an interdisciplinary book about several ethnic groups in southern New England. Mary Zahm, Ph.D. is Professor and Chair of the Psychology Department at Bristol Community College (BCC), Fall River, Massachusetts. She is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Rhode Island (URI). Dr. Zahm has received awards for outstanding teaching at both BCC and URI as well as the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD) award for excellence in teaching, learning, and leadership at BCC. She has also served as President of the New England Psychological Association. Dr. Zahm is the author of Create Your Ideal Life (AuthorHouse, 2010), a textbook for Psychology of Personal Adjustment classes. She also brings a practical bent to the book based on her 13 years as a Human Factors Engineer for Raytheon Company. Drs. Rollins and Zahm have a combined total of over 60 years of college teaching experience, including the freshman college seminar. They developed the Academic Self-Regulation scale, with their colleagues Dr. Gary Burkholder and Dr. Peter F. Merenda, which is highly correlated with grade point average and graduation rates of college students. They are available for the presentation of workshops on strategies for college student success.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: AuthorHouse
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 280mm x 210mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 777g
• ISBN-13: 9781452025032
• ISBN-10: 1452025037
• Artikelnr.: 30959756