Your perfect right assertiveness and equality in your life and relationships
Are you comfortable starting a conversation with strangers at a party? Do you sometimes feel ineffective in making your needs clear? Do you have difficulty saying no to persuasive people? Everyone needs a little help getting along with others. Assertiveness is a key social skill, as well as a tool f...
| Main Authors: | Alberti, Robert E. (Author), Emmons, Michael L. (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oakland, CA :
Impact Publishers, an imprint of New Harbinger Publications, Inc.,
[2017]
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| Edition: | Tenth edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction to the tenth edition
- You and your perfect right
- Assertiveness and you
- How assertive are you now?
- Keep track of your growth
- Discovering assertiveness
- Whose perfect right?
- What it means to be assertive
- "Can you give me an example?"
- Becoming assertive
- Set goals for yourself
- It's not what you say, it's how you say it!
- Assertive messages?twenty-first-century style
- Thinking assertively
- There's nothing to be afraid of
- It's a skill you can learn
- Take it one step at a time
- Building assertive relationships
- Assertiveness builds equal relationships
- All in the family : assertiveness for parents, children, and seniors
- Assertiveness, intimacy, and sexuality
- Applying your assertiveness
- Anger 101: it's not a four-letter word
- Anger 102: what you can do about it
- Must we put up with put-downs?
- Assertiveness works at work too
- Dealing with difficult people
- Living an assertive life
- Deciding when to be assertive? or not
- When assertiveness doesn?t work
- Helping others deal with the new assertive you
- Beyond assertiveness
- Appendix: assertiveness practice situations
- Online resources
- References and further reading
- Index.