Human Adjustment: John W. Santrock - Softcover

John W. Santrock

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072990597 ISBN 13: 9780072990591

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, 2006

Synopsis

In this new text for Psychology of Adjustment courses, John Santrock presents psychology as a research-based science that can be applied successfully to improving personal adjustment. Providing numerous opportunities for self-evaluation and strategies for adjustment, Human Adjustment helps students cope effectively with the challenges they face.

About this title

About the Author:

John W. Santrock received his Ph.D. from the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota. He taught at the University of Charleston and the University of Georgia before joining the faculty at the University of Texas at Dallas. He has worked as a school psychologist and currently teaches educational psychology every year at the undergraduate level. In 2006, John received the University of Texas at Dallas Excellence in teaching award. His research has included publications in the Journal of Educational Psychology that focus on the contextual aspects of affectively-toned cognition and children's self-regulatory behavior as well as teachers' perceptions of children from divorced families. He has been a member of the editorial boards of Developmental Psychology and Child Development. His publications include these exceptional McGraw-Hill texts: Child Development, 13th Ed; Life-Span Development, 14th Edition; Adolescence, 14th Edition; Psychology, 7th Edition; and Educational Psychology, 4th Edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0072990597
• ISBN 13: 9780072990591
• Binding: Paperback