Assertiveness Your Perfect Right
Learning Objectives
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Provide a definition of healthy assertive action.
- Describe how the goal of achieving equality in a multicultural, pluralistic society has become challenging.
- Give Assertiveness Inventory test to your clients.
- Help your clients prepare the Personal Growth Log.
- Discuss various elements of the definition of assertiveness.
- Contrast assertive, nonassertive and aggressive actions.
- Classify assertive and aggressive behaviors.
- Select various social, familial and work-related situations and formulate assertive, nonassertive and aggressive responses to each situation.
- Identify and expound upon the key components of assertive behavior.
- Identify three major characteristics of healthy personal growth and describe the behavioral model based on these qualities.
- Describe the deleterious effect of the continuous cycle of attitude, behavior and feedback.
- Identify the thoughts that get in the way of self-assertion.
- Explain to a client three “cognitive-behavioral" methods developed for dealing with thinking patterns.
- Explain the SUD scale and its application to assertiveness training.
- Explain the two methods for overcoming anxiety.
- Outline step-by-step the process of becoming assertive.
- Describe the step-by-step process for increasing your assertiveness.
- List 5 types of love and explain how assertiveness is important in building equal relationships.
- List 5 areas in anger management on which most mental health professionals agree.
- Distinguish between facts, theories and myths about anger.
- Identify 5 elements that may contribute toward making people angry.
- Outline 32 steps to managing anger.
- Explore with your client some of the most common put-down behaviors and what to do about them.
- Define intimacy and list six major dimensions which make for genuine intimacy.
- Classify various sexual communication types and describe their traits and body language.
- Distinguish between male and female sexual attitudes and behaviors.
- List some general ways in which one can practice assertion on the job.
- Describe how one can use his or her assertiveness skills in job search.
- Practice assertiveness in on-the-job relationships, dealing with supervisors and supervisees, and other coworkers.
- Describe 11 action steps you can take when confronted by someone who’s trying to push you around.
- Describe guidelines and procedures which can help when you’re confronted with a particularly difficult person or situation.
- Identify situations when it makes sense to be assertive and those when it’s better to walk away.
- List potential adverse reactions to assertiveness.
Contents Outline
Chapter 1: Assertiveness and You
Chapter 2: Whose Perfect Right?
Chapter 3: How Are You Assertive Now?
Chapter 4: Keep Track of Your Growth
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!
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
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
Chapter 19: Deciding When to Be Assertive
Chapter 20: Helping Others Deal With The New Assertive You
Chapter 21: Beyond Assertiveness
A. Assertiveness Takes Practice
B. References and Further Reading Assertiveness Your Perfect Right
Comments:
"Loved this book! I will be recommending it to both clients & other counselors." - A.P., LPC, GA