Key Features

• Infused with a positive psychology perspective to emphasize students’ personal strengths and inherent potential in order to build confidence
• Organized by units that reflect the natural progression of experiences and challenges faced by college students: Discovery, Learning, Personal, Social, and Planning
• Embraces students from all backgrounds and ages, not just traditional-age students, such as learners who have been away from school for several years, juggle a full-time or part-time job, have major family responsibilities, and have difficulty adjusting to the campus or classroom
• Practical approach features a wealth of self-assessments and exercises to build student self-awareness and insights
• Over 85 embedded hyperlinks to streaming videos and webpages enrich hybrid and online courses, engage students, and reinforce or augment many of the presented topics
• Introductory chapter provides an icebreaker that encourages classmates to meet one another, familiarizes students with the concept of goal setting, explains the positive psychology theme in ways they will readily understand, and inspires students to take personal responsibility for their own success
• Supportive learning structure:
  
  • Learning Objectives preview each main head section and help focus the reader’s attention
  • Self-Assessments invite students to explore their current perspectives, behaviors, talents, and skills to enhance self-awareness and personal insights
  • Exercises promote active learning, reflect all levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy, and are compatible with key learning preferences
  • Thinking Critically About . . . are five thought-provoking questions the prompt evaluation of information using careful, thoughtful, and reasoned judgments
  • End-of-Chapter Exercises
    
    • Online Learning provides information to help distance learners understand how to cope with the unique challenges they face
    • Chapter Challenge resents a case study of a first-year student facing a specific dilemma
    • Key Chapter Strategies presents a brief list summarizing the major tips for success covered in the preceding chapter
    • Can You Recall It? are eight-item fill-in-the-blank quizzes that reinforce major chapter concepts
    • Web Activity encourages students to utilize the internet to find resources about key chapter topics
    • Reflection Time prompts students to explore their own attitudes and behaviors and record their responses in a journal or directly into the interactive online activity
    • NEW Key Takeaways are a concise, bulleted list of concepts that remind the reader what they have learned from each section