People and Change

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 influences, large individual differences, and various other factors that can be involved in the complex stress process that leads to bad habits. The ability of the individual to adapt to change through self-knowledge is stressed throughout this important book.

Authored by Flanagan, Catherine M.

Content: Part I:How Problems Develop.Learning. Sources of Stress. Response to Stress. Part II::Problem Areas.Anxiety, Fears and Phobias. Depression. Obsessive-Compulsive Problems. Social Difficulties. Marital Problems. Sexual Problems. Problems of Over-Indulgence. Attrition, Adherence and Relapse. Appendices: Identifying Problems and Planning Changes. Making Changes in the Environment. Making Changes in the Body. Making Changes in Behavior. Making Changes in Thinking. Making Changes in Relation to Others. References.