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Becoming Aware: A Text/Workbook for Human Relations and Personal Adjustment assists the reader in the process of becoming more aware of themselves and others through the most interactive learning process found in any textbook.

Becoming Aware helps students explore, experiment, test, and apply the scholarly theories and ideas within the world of human relations and personal adjustment. This text/workbook encourages the learner to think critically, work through problems logically, and make connections with the real world – becoming an active learner!

Designed to be a personal workbook as well as a classroom text, the new 14th edition of Becoming Aware: A Text/Workbook for Human Relations and Personal Adjustment by Katie Barwick-Snell and Velma Walker:

• Is Interactive!  The publication integrates a minimum of five activities per chapter for the reader to pause and reflect on the personal application of the concepts and theories presented.
• Uses scholarly resources and numerous videos to reinforce learning.  Each chapter includes beginning reflections to help students to note key ideas and concepts.  In addition, since technology has impacted the way we now interact, the authors have integrated new information on how technology impacts each chapter topic.
• Is Practical!  The publication contains a Learning Journal within each chapter that allows the reader to write and assess the personal value or meaning gained from the concepts presented.
• Emphasizes critical thinking skills by using Think about This, Check This Out, Consider This, and How To vignettes to highlight many of the important concepts and ideas.
• Features new coverage of tolerance, acceptance, appreciation of differences, tips for happiness, and much more.
• Is easy to adopt!  All adopting instructors will receive an engaging new PowerPoint presentation that enhances discussion and encourages critical thinking skills.
• Is written in gender-neutral language, and is more user-friendly than ever before by integrating media links, online quizzes, videos, activities, and podcasts.

Dr. Katie Barwick-Snell University of Oklahoma Professor Emeritus has been a faculty member at the University of Oklahoma, Norman, since the early 1990s. She is currently retired but still teaching graduate students in Human Relations, and Women and Gender Studies. She helped develop and implement the undergraduate Human Relations program at the University of Oklahoma and was the first academic advisor of the popular undergraduate major in Human Relations. She has won numerous advising and teaching awards. Her B.S. is in Home Economics from Mississippi State University, her M.S. in Human Development from the University of Oklahoma, and her Ed.D. in Occupational and Adult Education from Oklahoma State University. She was on faculty in the former Home Economics Department at USAO in Chickasha, Oklahoma and the former School of Home Economics at the University of Oklahoma. Shewas also cook on an archeology dig in Syria in the late 1980s and has lived in Australia and Scotland.
She is a long-time volunteer for Transitions House, Board of Directors, Norman Public Schools, Norman’s Center for Children and Families, the Women’s Resource Center Board of Directors, and most recently a community volunteer with Parents Helping Parents, an organization for parents of substance abuse, to off er hope and help to other parents. She is married and has two fantastic grown children, a wonderful son in law, two delightful “other daughters,” and three geriatric dogs.

Dr. Velma Walker is a Professor Emeritus of psychology at Tarrant County College, Northeast Campus in Hurst, Texas. Although she has specialized in human relations courses for 39 years at the college level, she has also been a counselor and coordinator of student job placement and career information. She has a bachelor’s degree in business administration/education, a master’s degree in counseling and psychology, and a doctor of education degree, with emphasis in counseling, psychology, and administration. Dr. Walker is also a certified mediator for conflict resolution.
Dr. Walker has given human relations training seminars in the areas of communication, motivation, stress management, time management, and personality lifestyles for educators and business and professional groups for over 36 years. She has also served as a teacher consultant for the Educational Division of the Zig Ziglar Corporation. Dr. Walker is a multiple year honoree in Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers.