Becoming Aware: A Text-Workbook for Human Relations and Personal Adjustment
Edition: 15
Copyright: 2024
Edition: 15
Copyright: 2024
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Becoming Aware: A Text/Workbook for Human Relations and Personal Adjustment assists the reader in the process of becoming more aware of themselves and others through the most interactive learning process found in any textbook.
Becoming Aware helps students explore, experiment, test, and apply the scholarly theories and ideas within the world of human relations and personal adjustment. This text/workbook encourages the learner to think critically, work through problems logically, and make connections with the real world – becoming an active learner!
Designed to be a personal workbook as well as a classroom text, Becoming Aware: A Text/Workbook for Human Relations and Personal Adjustment by Katie Barwick-Snell and Velma Walker:
- Is Interactive! The publication integrates a minimum of five activities per chapter for the reader to pause and reflect on the personal application of the concepts and theories presented.
- Is Practical! The publication contains a Learning Journal within each chapter that allows the reader to write and assess the personal value or meaning gained from the concepts presented.
- Emphasizes critical thinking skills by using Think about This, Check This Out, Consider This, and How To vignettes to highlight many of the important concepts and ideas.
- Features new coverage of tolerance, acceptance, appreciation of differences, tips for happiness, and much more.
- Is easy to adopt! All adopting instructors will receive an engaging new PowerPoint presentation that enhances discussion and encourages critical thinking skills.
Chapter One Getting Acquainted with Ourselves and Others
Chapter Two Self-Awareness
Chapter Three Who’s in Control?
Chapter Four Dealing with Emotions
Chapter Five Interpersonal Communication
Chapter Six Developing Relationships
Chapter Seven Resolving Interpersonal Conflict
Chapter Eight Managing Stress and Wellness
Chapter Nine Values, Ethics, and Choices
Chapter Ten Life Planning
References
Glossary
Index
Dr. Katie Barwick-Snell has been a faculty member at the University of Oklahoma, Norman, since the early 1990’s. She is currently teaching undergraduate and graduate students in Human Relations, Women and Gender Studies, and in the College of Liberal Studies. She helped develop and implement the undergraduate Human Relations program and was the first academic advisor of the popular undergraduate major in Human Relations. She has won numerous advising and teaching awards. Her B.S. is in Home Economics from Mississippi State University, her M.S. in Human Development from the University of Oklahoma, and her Ed.D. in Occupational and Adult Education from Oklahoma State University. She was on faculty in the former Home Economics Department at USAO in Chickasha, Oklahoma and the former School of Home Economics at the University of Oklahoma. She was also cook on an archeology dig in Syria in the late 1980’s and has lived in Australia and Scotland.
She is a long-time volunteer for Norman’s Center for Children and Families, the Women’s Resource Center Board of Directors, and most recently a community volunteer with Parents Helping Parents, an organization for parents of substance abuse, to offer hope and help to other parents. She has recently become a “parent coach” for the Partnership for Drug-Free Kids drugfree.org/helpline. She is married and has two fantastic grown children, a wonderful son in law, three delightful “other daughters,” and three geriatric dogs.
Becoming Aware: A Text/Workbook for Human Relations and Personal Adjustment is an excellent resource and I appreciate the research and work it encompasses.
Gordon Fultz, Chemeketa Community College
I highly recommend Becoming Aware: A Text/Workbook for Human Relations and Personal Adjustment. The topics covered and the exercises in it provide thought-provoking and engaging material for both the instructor and the students.
Ann Elliott, Gaston College
Becoming Aware: A Text/Workbook for Human Relations and Personal Adjustment applies psychological knowledge and concepts in a way that is accessible for all students. The book enables students to increase the effectiveness of their relationships and self awareness while learning the foundations of psychological principles. It balances theory, understanding, and application at a level useful to both young adults and returning learners. Chapters and exercises are organized well and the publisher's supporting materials are useful to instructors.
Amy L. Gilliland, Madison College
Becoming Aware: A Text/Workbook for Human Relations and Personal Adjustment is a wonderful tool especially in working with non-traditional students who often have been so busy living life that they have not taken the opportunity to sit down and discover themselves. Becoming Aware provides an interactive tool to help the adult learner explore and identify what is important to them. It is not unusual for students to express that they thought they knew themselves but with the books assistance they were able to discover the stranger behind the face. We use the book in several of our courses and recommend students keep the text and referrer back to it through their program of study with us.
Dawn R. Green, Central Texas College
Becoming Aware: A Text/Workbook for Human Relations and Personal Adjustment includes fantastic exercises for each chapter that help students master the content. I have not found another text that emphasizes the actual application of the theory and content as effectively as the Walker text.
Lee Kooler, Yosemite Community College
Becoming Aware: A Text/Workbook for Human Relations and Personal Adjustment doesn't bog the reader down in theory. It presents various theorists points of view, but emphasizes putting knowledge into practice. I really love the idea of the exercises at the end of every chapter. I'm always discovering new ways to use these in the teaching process.
Bishop T. Scott, College of Alameda