adjustment (psychology)

When Keesha's dad gets a new job, her family has to move to the city. Keesha finds that change is hard when it means leaving behind the home she loves and moving to a new house, a new school, and meeting new friends.

Uses the results of the African American Women's Voices Project, an interview and questionnaire study with four hundred women across the United States, to explore the pressures African-American women face in today's society.

Introduces young readers to positive thinking and patience through the situations and problems a girl encounters. Includes advice for adults and related activities.

The book illuminates how each different type of setback carries its own challenges and has the potential to yield its own form of wisdom. Using stories from his own life--including his childhood in apartheid-era South Africa, his years after suffering a violent attack from a stranger, and his career as a psychiatrist--as well as case studies and discussions with well-known figures such as Viktor Frankl and David Lynch, Rosenthal reveals that true innovation, emotional resilience, wisdom, and dignity can only come from confronting and understanding the adversity we have experienced.

Explains a cognitive therapy approach to help patients with chronic or terminal illnesses, discussing the Cognitive Coping Therapy (CCT) model and its three distinct phases, and describing the tasks and coping skills with case illustrations.

A guide to overcoming the experience of being raised in a dysfunctional family, outlining a process for healing and providing charts, exercises, checklists, and real-life stories designed to help readers let go of hurtful beliefs and behaviors.

Offers advice to young people on how to deal with the daily questions, worries, problems, and puzzles that come their way, covering anger, body image, dreams, drugs, friends, grief, parents, peer pressure, self-esteem, sex, and many other topics; and includes comments from real-life kids.

Offers insight into the psychological healing processes of nine individuals whose lives were irrevocably changed by the September 11 attacks, including one of the second tower's seventeen survivors from above the impact zone and a man who lost a firefighter brother.