Psychology of Life Experience

This course focuses on the development of the healthy person throughout the life cycle. It examines the basic life crises and many stressful situations most individual's experience (e.g., sexual behavior, marriage and family, work and career, aging and death) and considers ways in which mastery and growth can emerge from life crises. The course presents the major theoretical and research contributions of psychoanalysis, behaviorism, humanism, and cognitive psychology and explores their application to an understanding of the normal adjustment process at each stage of the life span. This course is not open to students who previously enrolled in PSY 3046.