Anti-Aging - I Never Knew I Had A Choice: Explorations in Personal Growth (with InfoTrac®)
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Manufacturer: Brooks Cole
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 158
EAN: 9780534607869
ISBN: 0534607861
Label: Brooks Cole
Manufacturer: Brooks Cole
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 496
Publication Date: 2005-03-29
Publisher: Brooks Cole
Studio: Brooks Cole
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Summary: Good book
Comment: I had to purchase this book for a Masters Class but it is a very good book. There are a lot of exercises that help you to self analyze and discover new or clarify not so new things about yourself. So far, I am enjoying it very much.
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Summary: Self-Help, Group Setting
Comment: Here is a sample paragraph from "I Never Knew I Had a Choice" by Corey & Corey, "Instead of talking about adjustment, we tend to talk about growth. The notion of personal growth involves the induvidual in defining and assessing growth for him- or herself. Personal growth is best viewed as a lifelong process rather than as a fixed point at which you arrive. You will face numours crisis at various stages in your life. These crises can been seen as challenges to change, significant others, your community, and your world. You do not grow in a vacuum but through your engagement with other people. To continue to grow, you have to be willing to exercise new choices and take action to bring about change. Ask yourself these questions:
What do I want for myself, for others, and from others?
What do I like about myself?
What about my life am I having difficulty with?
How would I like to be different?
What are possible consequences if I do or do not change?
How will my changes affect others in my life?
Whate range of choices is open to me at this time in my life?
How has my culture influenced the choices I have made? How might my cultural values either enhance of inhibit my ability to make changes?"
Frequently, the book starts by comparing and contrasting the induvidual and the collective. It tries to create a divide between you, the induvidual, and the collection around you. It does this paragraph in and out. It uses the philosophy of integration. It builds itself in esteem... tries to tear down in esteem other beliefs, such as Socrates, and place itself in the void. It tries to make a void within you so you long for the book through rough spots in your life.
What this book wants to do is make an ice cream sunday from the bottom up out of the reader using Maslow's hierarchy of needs. It's from food->safety->love->esteem needs->self-actualization. The intent of this book is to create lots of neat perfect looking chocolate ice cream sundays. Self-actualization is the cherry on top. This is all very well intentioned. But it asks you to give up your induvidualality in the process.
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Summary: Wonderful Workbook
Comment: This was a textbook assigned for an online psychology course. This was one of the best "self-help" books I have ever read. This book is easy to read, plus each chapter has a section for activities pertaining to the topics covered. I learned a lot about myself from this book. I recommend doing the activities and answering the questions from each chapter to get the most out of this book. Authors make this a very interesting and uncomplicated read.
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Summary: "Psychology in a Nutshell" An excellent resource ~JC Angelcraft
Comment: This book in its 7th edition is well written and easy to understand. "I Never Knew I Had a Choice" is yet another fine work by the educational psychology team of Gerald and Marianne Schneider Corey and one that you do not have be a psychologist to appreciate. It is written so that anyone who is on a quest to search their inner-self can benefit from it.
What I like most about this book is its structure. Prior to the beginning of each chapter is a self-inventory questioner that opens up the mind of the reader by planting seeds of thought to germinate and encourages reflection on the upcoming pages. The questions are designed to boost the reader's perception and digestion of the the material.
I feel that if there was one psychology book any person could pick up and learn how to help themselves this book would be it. It is well rounded and well written. It is the kind of text that if one wanted to know what the basic tenets of psychology are all about in a nutshell, this is the book I would recommend.
It appropriately begins with an invitation to personal growth and transitions the reader to review and to reflect; first on their childhood and then adolescence setting up an internal foundation for which the reader can build upon on before going into adulthood studies and other theoretical constructs.
Chapter 4 covers the all-important theme of maintaining sound health practices and is a miniature lesson in health psychology. In the following chapters, the Coreys deal with the subject of stress and how best to manage it. They also cover the topics of love, sexuality, and relationships in the ensuing chapters.
In addition, the Corey's addresses the all-important subjects such as our search for meaning and purpose, the foundation of meaning, and the importance of embracing diversity. They illustrate well our values in action and challenge us to self assess with a discrimination index to see where our real values lie with concern to an area that is vital to human growth and evolution.
The book in the seventh edition, not too sure of the others, is dedicated to a student of the Corey's named Jim Morelock who died at the tender age of 25 years making their chapter on death and loss even more meaningful to the reader. If you are a searcher, you will love this most excellent and basic book on psychology.
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Summary: Nice Idea, VERY Poor Execution (w/ Catholic bias)
Comment: This book attempts to cover most if not all the major areas of life in which we must make choices about who we are as individuals, what direction we wish to go. The title of the book suggests that the book's design is to enlighten the reader about the nature of such choices.
Unfortunately, in the my eyes and those of the other introspective members of a class just finished that required this book, the book is a failure in that it attempts to cover so very much material, is insufficiently edited, and generally fails to focus attention on the key life choices suggested by the book's title. Instead, we found the book a rather empty promise of good things to come.
Chapter one begins with some good insight into various ways we learn or relate to the world that may differ from others. That's useful information. Chapter two deals with the major issues children must deal with to mature (at least in western cultures). Chapter two is the highpoint of the book, and its rapidly downhill from there thru another 400pgs and 12 chapters.
A typical chapter will open with 2-4 pages of well conceived, well written text outlining in general terms a life issue such as sexuality or aging. But then the authors will drone on in needless and counter-productive detail without every reaching a point or conclusion, and often going into tantential personal examples that add little -- both clear signs of an absentee editor.
The chapter on sexuality has no -- repeat, no -- mention of birth control, abortion or masturbation, suggesting a Catholic bias to their approach. Does that make sense to you if this is a book about choice?
In fact, my central complaint about this book is that the title could have been a great focal point for the authors. Instead, it seems to have been a marketing afterthought and has little to do with the authors' book.
Our class of 13 had a hand in selecting this book at the beginning of our spring term. While the choice was unanimous, we were equally unanimous in our great disappointment with the book when it was all over.
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Thousands of readers have used this honest and inspiring book to focus on their personal growth and effect personal change. Through their warm--yet thoroughly research-based--discussion of significant dimensions of life, the Coreys help students expand their awareness of the choices available to them. As students work through the text's self-inventories, exercises, and activities and read the first-person accounts of the choices real people have made in response to challenging life events, they will gain insight into their lives, beliefs, and attitudes in a personally empowering way.
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