Coping & Adjustment Paper

Individual Coping and Adjustment Paper (100 points) Throughout this class, we will be discussing the psychology of personal adjustment and one important way to understand it is through your own self-reflection and analysis. You will write a paper focused on your own psychological process of adjusting to the challenges of life. This paper needs to be an integration of your lived experience through the frame of concepts and theories of psychology. In this paper, you will describe your means of addressing challenges in your life. Your paper should include a description of 3 specific examples of challenging situations. One challenge needs to come from childhood, one challenge needs to come from adulthood, and one challenge must be one you are experiencing right now. For each past situation, you will need to analyze: How you managed/coped with the situation (both positive and negative). What would you have done same/differently. What concepts from psychology applied to that situation. For your current challenge, you will need to analyze: How you are currently managing that situation. Based upon what we have been learning in class, what coping styles will you keep using and what will you do differently to adjust to this challenge in a more psychologically effective way? To meet the requirements of this assignment, the paper needs to integrate content and information from class, the book, and research articles. Your paper should not be more than 6–7 pages (APA format, double spaced) and will be submitted through TurnItIn on Blackboard. Your paper requires a reference page and accurate citations noted in APA format throughout the paper.