ED 371 288 AUTHOR TITLE REPORT NO PUB DATE NOTE AVAILABLE FROM PUB TYPE EDRS PRICE DESCRIPTORS ABSTRACT DOCUMENT RESUME CG 025 590 O'Connor, Nancy How To Grow Up when You're Grown Up: Achieving Balance in Adulthood. ISBN-0-9613714-5-5 94 313p. La Mariposa Press, P.O. Box 13221, Tucson, AZ 85732-3221 (paperback, ISBN-0-9613714-5-5: $14.95; ' hardback, ISBN-0-9613714-6-3: $24.95). Books (010) Guides Non-Classroom Use (055) MF01/PC13 Plus Postage. Adults; *Emotional Development; Individual Characteristics; *Individual Counseling; *Individual Psychology; Intellectual Development; *Personality Assessment; *Personality Development; Self Actualization; *Self Evaluation (Individuals); Self Help Programs The thesis of this self-help book is that four personality aspects (physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual) must be balanced if individuals are to become adults. Because each person is an individual personality that is out of balance in some way, growth is a life-long process. The initial 2 chapters, Growth And Growing Up, define what it means to grow up and delineate each of the four personality aspects, ending with a questionnaire to help the reader assess his or her status as an adult. The following four sections, Parts Two through Five (14 chapters), deal specifically with each of tLe four personality aspects, breaking each down into its significant qualities, identifying the issues commonly associated with that aspect, and offering techniques for achieving growth in it. Part 6, Getting It All Together (3 chapters), lists some universal truths, encourages the reader to begin seeing his or her life holistically and to embark on a consciously-structured plan of growth, and ends with some thoughts on the present spiritual condition of the world and the possibility of wholeness for the entire planet. (MSF) *********************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. ****************************************,******************************