Beginnings & Beyond: A Guide for Personal Growth & AdjustmentIn this practical text, Laurel Hughes offers self-testing and practical applications and suggestions, so that students learn to deal with problems they face in their own lives. With the beginning psychology student in mind, she explains basic concepts of psychology with detailed applications and analyses. Hughes offers a humanistic approach to the book by including her own personal stories at the end of each chapter to provide a model of self-analysis and a review of chapter concepts. |
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CHAPTER | 1 |
Investigating Personal Adjustment | 15 |
The Role of Values | 21 |
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