Psychology and the Challenges of Life: Adjustment and Growth (13th Edition) – eBook

About The Author

Jeffrey S. Nevid

Dr. Jeffrey Nevid is a Professor of Psychology at St. John's University in New York. He received his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Albany and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in evaluation research at Northwestern University. Dr. Nevid has accrued more than 200 professional presentations and research publications and is the author or co-author of more than a dozen textbooks in psychology and related fields. He has conducted research in many areas of psychology, including clinical and community psychology, health psychology, gender and human sexuality, social psychology, adolescent development, and teaching of psychology. His research publications have appeared in many journals.

Professor Nevid also served as Editorial Consultant for the journals Health Psychology and Psychology and Marketing and as Associate Editor for the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. He is actively involved in conducting research on pedagogical advances to help college students succeed in their courses.

Spencer A. Rathus

Dr. Spencer Rathus got his Ph.D. in psychology and then entered clinical practice and teaching. He has published many research articles in journals such as Behaviour Research and Therapy, Behavior Therapy, Journal of Clinical Psychology, Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, Adolescence, and Criminology.

Dr. Spencer's research interests lie in the areas of human growth and development, methods of therapy, psychological disorders, and psychological assessment. Numerous personal experiences enter into Spencer Rathus's textbooks. He was the first member of his family to go to college and found textbooks to be very cold and intimidating. When his opportunity arrived to write textbooks for college students, Spencer wanted them to be different--warm and encouraging, especially to students who were also the first generation in their families to be entering college.

Rathus is proud of his family. His wife, Lois Fichner-Rathus, is also a successful textbook author and a professor of art history.