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1 online resource (266 pages) |
Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION; PART I: HOW PROBLEMS DEVELOP; 1 LEARNING; Building Blocks; Developing Patterns of Behavior; Developing Patterns of Thinking; Overlearning; Why Such Creatures of Habit?; The Price of Convenience; When do People Stop and Think?; Suggested Further Reading; 2 SOURCES OF STRESS; External Sources of Stress: Life Events, Ongoing Circumstances, and Daily Hassles; Internal Sources of Stress: The Body; Internal Sources of Stress: Behavior and Faulty Learning; Internal Sources of Stress: Faulty Thinking |
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Suggested Further Reading3 THE STRESS RESPONSE; The Normal Stress Response; The Problematic Stress Response; Mind, Body, and Behavior; Suggested Further Reading; PART II: SPECIFIC PROBLEM AREAS; 4 ANXIETY, FEARS, AND PHOBIAS; Fears and Phobias; Facts and Figures; Causes, Signs, and Symptoms; Treatment; Agoraphobia; Facts and Figures; Causes, Signs, and Symptoms; Treatment; Suggested Further Reading; 5 DEPRESSION; Facts and Figures; Causes, Signs, and Symptoms; Treatment; Suggested Further Reading; 6 OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE PROBLEMS; Facts and Figures; Causes, Signs, and Symptoms; Treatment |
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Suggested Further Reading7 RELATING; Facts and Figures; Causes, Signs, and Symptoms; Treatment; Suggested Further Reading; 8 MARRIAGE; Facts and Figures; Causes, Signs, and Symptoms; Treatment; Suggested Further Reading; 9 SEX; Facts and Figures; Causes, Signs, and Symptoms; Treatment; Suggested Further Reading; 10 OVERINDULGENCE; Overeating; Facts and Figures; Causes, Signs, and Symptoms; Smoking; Facts and Figures; Causes, Signs, and Symptoms; Treatment; Suggested Further Reading; Alcohol: Theory, Research, and Self-Help; 11 ATTRITION, ADHERENCE, AND RELAPSE; Paths into Care |
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Paths out of CarePaths Back into Care; Suggested Further Reading; APPENDIX I: IDENTIFYING PROBLEMS AND PLANNING CHANGES; Identifying the Problems; Planning Changes; APPENDIX II: MAKING CHANGES IN THE ENVIRONMENT; Utilizing Environmental Resources; Advance Preparation; APPENDIX III: MAKING CHANGES IN THE BODY; Eating; Exercise; Relaxation; Sleep; APPENDIX IV: MAKING CHANGES IN BEHAVIOR; Facing Fears; Getting Started; Getting Finished; APPENDIX V: MAKING CHANGES IN THINKING; Cognitive Restructuring; Visual Imagery; Focusing Attention; APPENDIX VI: MAKING CHANGES IN RELATION TO OTHERS |
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Making ConversationListening; Problem Solving; Communicating Emotions; Assertion Training; REFERENCES; AUTHOR INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX |
Summary |
How to capitalize on change -- as a key feature of modern living - - is the central theme of this work. Incorporating the major theoretical advances psychology has made during the last thirty years, People and Change describes how clinical levels of psychological difficulty can develop and how problems such as phobias, depression, shyness, marital and sexual disharmony, obsessions, and over-indulgence are treated. Although a psychology text, People and Change offers an unusually broad scope. The text acknowledges the interplay of somatic vulnerabilities, environmental in |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781317717508 |
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1317717503 |
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