Psychology of Adjustment

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

• Defining adjustment and discussing its implications.
• Describing how competence and flexibility relate to intellectual adjustment.
• Identifying the nature of emotional response and emotional paradox as they relate to emotional adjustment.
• Describing the emotional response theories of selected theorists.
• Examining adjustment to stressful situations and identifying positive and negative ways people cope with stress.
• Discussing the implications of psychotherapeutic intervention for optimum personal adjustment.
• Identifying personal stressors that may have an impact on the process of adjustment.
• Discussing the maintenance of interpersonal security, self-esteem, and the assimilation of the data of experience as functions of the self.
• Contrasting constructive and destructive fight styles.
• Discussing depression as it relates to personal adjustment.
• Describing how ineffective adjustment patterns affect the individual and the family.
• Applying Constructive Coping Model to personal stressful circumstances.
• Describing the correlation of habit, lifestyle, and health to personal adjustment.
• Applying the principles of Positive Psychology.
• Identifying communication styles and how they impact the ability to adjust effectively.
• 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.