The essays and self-assessment materials contained in this book are designed with one purpose in mind: to help students succeed in college and in life. The author has been in the profession of teaching and practicing psychology for twenty-five years. This book is not so much a guide to the field of psychology as it is a guide to working with psychology. The materials included in the book help students succeed in attaining their college goals, in mastering the developmental tasks of the early adulthood, and in building a sophisticated and solid foundation for emotional intelligence, stress balance, self-actualization and ecological integrity for life.
The book is written as a "self-help" manual in the use of the Wellness Inventory of Student Success (WISE), and with the Emotology Q-Deck (EQD). The WISE is a psychological test that focuses assessment in fifteen areas related to stress management and success. The EQD is a Q-sort assessment tool that assesses emotional life and emotional stress balance. It is purposely embedded in a deck of playing cards and comes with guidelines on how to play 1 solitary and 6 interactive games designed to stimulate emotional well-being and intelligence.