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Adjustment (Psychology) --- Stress (Psychology) --- Research.

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This book reflects on Western humanity's efforts to escape from history and its terrors--from the existential condition and natural disasters to the endless succession of wars and other man-made catastrophes. Drawing on historical episodes ranging from antiquity to the recent past, and combining them with literary examples and personal reflections, Teofilo Ruiz explores the embrace of religious experiences, the pursuit of worldly success and pleasures, and the quest for beauty and knowledge as three primary responses to the individual and collective nightmares of history. The result is a profound meditation on how men and women in Western society sought (and still seek) to make meaning of the world and its disturbing history. In chapters that range widely across Western history and culture, The Terror of History takes up religion, the material world, and the world of art and knowledge. "Religion and the World to Come" examines orthodox and heterodox forms of spirituality, apocalyptic movements, mysticism, supernatural beliefs, and many forms of esotericism, including magic, alchemy, astrology, and witchcraft. "The World of Matter and the Senses" considers material riches, festivals and carnivals, sports, sex, and utopian communities. Finally, "The Lure of Beauty and Knowledge" looks at cultural productions of all sorts, from art to scholarship. Combining astonishing historical breadth with a personal and accessible narrative style, The Terror of History is a moving testimony to the incredibly diverse ways humans have sought to cope with their frightening history.

Civilization, Western. --- Uncertainty --- Terror --- Disasters --- Adjustment (Psychology) --- Social aspects --- History.

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This book provides a unique study in social and cultural psychiatry, carried out in an African-American community in the rural South. Using a combination of concepts and methods from anthropology and social epidemiology, the specific social and psychological risk factors for depression are examined. The author places special emphasis on how that risk is modified by the social and historical context of the Black community in the United States, and suggests a new basis for the sociocultural comparative study of health and disease.

Adjustment (Psychology) --- African Americans --- Depression, Mental --- Stress (Psychology) --- Family relationships --- Mental health --- STRESS (PSYCHOLOGY) --- ADJUSTMENT (PSYCHOLOGY) --- AFRICAN AMERICANS --- PSYCHOLOGY --- SOCIAL SCIENCE --- Psychology --- Social Science --- Stress (psychology) --- Adjustment (psychology) --- African americans --- Social science

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Chronic childhood disease brings psychological challenges for families and carers as well as the children. Roger Bradford explores how they cope with these challenges, the psychological and social factors that influence outcomes and the ways in which the delivery of services can be improved to promote adjustment. Drawing on concepts from health psychology and family therapy, the author proposes a multi-level model of care which takes into account the child, the family and the wider care system and how they interrelate and influence each other.

Chronic diseases in children --- Adjustment (Psychology) in children. --- Chronically ill children --- Sick children --- Adjustment (Psychology) --- Child psychology --- Psychological aspects. --- Family relationships. --- Services for. --- Patients

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American culture is undergoing some seismic shifts and this has left many people off-balance and ill-prepared to manage their lives in order to achieve the American Dream. With 95 years of practice, the author identifies some fundamental ideas that can help people attain the success they wish for.

Self-consciousness (Awareness) --- Adjustment (Psychology) --- Mass society. --- United States --- Social conditions --- Politics and government --- Mass society