Adjustment in Today’s World

Pathways to Personal Growth: Adjustment in Today’s World

Pathways to Personal Growth is a textbook that examines the factors, both personal and social, that affect how we learn about ourselves, how to set goals and take control of our lives, how we become contributing members of our community, and how exactly we can achieve our goals. Basically, this book takes a look at the human condition - what issues we are facing and how we are trying to adjust to modern society.

Pathways to Personal Growth is comprehensive, written in an easy-to-understand manner so that any reader can comprehend the theories and research used to explain issues including:

• Drug abuse
• Changing sex roles
• Job opportunities for women
• Most recent legal decisions that open up a whole new slew of issues and pressures on men and women

The book makes use of current cases and examples, as well as the experiences of the authors themselves. Each chapter starts with a vignette designed to catch the reader’s interest and introduce the major themes within each chapter. Each chapter ends with review questions to make sure readers understand the concepts discussed.