Psychology of Adjustment

CAVEAT: No graduate credit will be awarded if HBD4725 has been successfully completed.

UPON COMPLETION OF THE COURSE, THE STUDENT WILL BE COMPETENT IN:

• Understanding the process of personal adjustment and discussing its implications.
• Analyzing how competence and flexibility relate to intellectual adjustment.
• Assessing the emotional response theories of selected theorists.
• Examining the emotional and physiological responses to stressful situations, including life changes and evaluating the positive and negative ways people cope with stress.
• Determining the implications of psychotherapeutic intervention for optimum personal adjustment.
• Understanding the maintenance of interpersonal security, self-esteem, and the assimilation of the data of experience as functions of the self.
• Comprehending the concepts of diffusion of responsibility and blind obedience to authority as they relate to the personal evaluation of behavior.
• Analyzing communication styles and how they impact the ability to adjust effectively.
• Correlating attraction, friendship, and love in interpersonal relationships.
• Applying the theories of adjustment to personal development.
• Illustrating the motivational relationship of human needs to adjustment and development.
• Applying the principles of Positive Psychology.
• Tracing the development of various forms of parent-child relationships and their implications for the effective development of both parties.
• Comprehending the nature of primary and secondary drives as motivational processes.
• Exploring gender, ethnic and sociocultural differences in responding to and coping with stress produced by life changes.
• Critically analyzing advertising and other media for instances of stereotyping, and discussing any potential impact on personal development and adjustment.
• Critically reviewing and analyzing a self-help book for its thoroughness in discussing a psychological problem and its effectiveness in outlining a specific plan to manage, cope, or solve the associated challenges.