Assertiveness, Your Perfect Right

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, you will be able to:

Chapter 1: Assertiveness and You

  1. Provide a definition of healthy assertive action.

Chapter 2: Whose Perfect Right?

  1. Describe how the goal of achieving equality in a multicultural, pluralistic society has become challenging.

Chapter 3: How Are You Assertive Now?

  1. Give Assertiveness Inventory test to your clients.

Chapter 4: Keep Track of Your Growth

  1. Help your clients prepare the Personal Growth Log.

Chapter 5: What It Means to Be Assertiveness

  1. Discuss various elements of the definition of assertiveness.
  2. Contrast assertive, nonassertive and aggressive actions.
  3. Classify assertive and aggressive behaviors.

Chapter 6: “Can You Give Me an Example?"

  1. Select various social, familial and work-related situations and formulate assertive, nonassertive and aggressive responses to each situation.

Chapter 7: It’s Not What You Say, It’s How You Say It!

  1. Identify and expound upon the key components of assertive behavior.

Chapter 8: Set Goals for Yourself

  1. Identify three major characteristics of healthy personal growth and describe the behavioral model based on these qualities.

Chapter 9: Thinking Assertively

  1. Describe the deleterious effect of the continuous cycle of attitude, behavior and feedback.
  2. Identify the thoughts that get in the way of self-assertion.
  3. Explain to a client three “cognitive-behavioral" methods developed for dealing with thinking patterns.

Chapter 10: There’s Nothing to Be Afraid of

  1. Explain the SUD scale and its application to assertiveness training.
  2. Explain the two methods for overcoming anxiety.

Chapter 11: It’s a Skill You Can Learn

  1. Outline step-by-step the process of becoming assertive.

Chapter 12: Take It One Step at a Time

  1. Describe the step-by-step process for increasing your assertiveness.

Chapter 13: Assertiveness Builds Equal Relationships

  1. List 5 types of love and explain how assertiveness is important in building equal relationships.

Chapter 14: Anger is Not a Four-Letter Word

  1. List 5 areas in anger management on which most mental health professionals agree.
  2. Distinguish between facts, theories and myths about anger.
  3. Identify 5 elements that may contribute toward making people angry.
  4. Outline 32 steps to managing anger.

Chapter 15: Must We Put Up With Put-downs?

  1. Explore with your client some of the most common put-down behaviors and what to do about them.

Chapter 16: Assertiveness, Intimacy, and Sexuality

  1. Define intimacy and list six major dimensions which make for genuine intimacy.
  2. Classify various sexual communication types and describe their traits and body language.
  3. Distinguish between male and female sexual attitudes and behaviors.

Chapter 17: Assertiveness Works at Work, Too

  1. List some general ways in which one can practice assertion on the job.
  2. Describe how one can use his or her assertiveness skills in job search.
  3. Practice assertiveness in on-the-job relationships, dealing with supervisors and supervisees, and other coworkers.

Chapter 18: Dealing With Difficult People

  1. Describe 11 action steps you can take when confronted by someone who’s trying to push you around.
  2. Describe guidelines and procedures which can help when you’re confronted with a particularly difficult person or situation.

Chapter 19: Deciding When to Be Assertive

  1. Identify situations when it makes sense to be assertive and those when it’s better to walk away.

Chapter 20: Helping Others Deal With The New Assertive You

  1. List potential adverse reactions to assertiveness.

Contents Outline

Part I: You and Your Perfect Right

Chapter 1: Assertiveness and You

Chapter 2: Whose Perfect Right?

Chapter 3: How Are You Assertive Now?

Chapter 4: Keep Track of Your Growth

 

Part II: Discovering Assertiveness

Chapter 5: What It Means to Be Assertive

Chapter 6: “Can You Give Me an Example?”

Chapter 7: It’s Not What You Say, It’s How You Say It!

 

Part III: Becoming Assertive

Chapter 8: Set Goals for Yourself

Chapter 9: Thinking Assertively

Chapter 10: There’s Nothing to Be Afraid of

Chapter 11: It’s a Skill You Can Learn

Chapter 12: Take It One Step at a Time

 

Part IV: Applying Your Assertiveness

Chapter 13: Assertiveness Builds Equal Relationships

Chapter 14: Anger Is Not a Four-Letter Word

Chapter 15: Must We Put Up With Put-downs?

Chapter 16: Assertiveness, Intimacy, and Sexuality

Chapter 17: Assertiveness Works at Work, Too

Chapter 18: Dealing With Difficult People

 

Part V: Living an Assertive Life

Chapter 19: Deciding When to Be Assertive

Chapter 20: Helping Others Deal With The New Assertive You

Chapter 21: Beyond Assertiveness

 

Appendices

A. Assertiveness Takes Practice

B. References and Further Reading Assertiveness Your Perfect Right

 

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