Psychology of Adjustment

Psychology of Adjustment: The Search for Meaningful Balance, 1st Edition, is a textbook designed to help readers understand and navigate ongoing change, challenge, and opportunity. The volume combines a student focus with contemporary theory and research to examine human adaptation across everyday life.

The textbook integrates existential viewpoints with third-wave behavioral psychology, emphasizing personal meaning, mindfulness, and psychologically informed awareness and skill. Core themes explore adjustment as a life process, purpose, community contexts, and the connections between stress, health, and well-being.

Pedagogical support and examples drawn from broad ethnic, cultural, gender, and geographic backgrounds assist readers in exploring applied psychological principles.