Your Perfect Right: A Guide to Assertive Living
by Robert E. Alberti (Author), Michael L. Emmons (Author)
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Your Perfect Right-the leading assertiveness guide with over 1.3 million copies sold-is now fully updated and revised. This indispensable guide to equal-relationship assertiveness is packed with step-by-step exercises, tips, and skills to help you express yourself effectively. 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 show more getting along with others. Assertiveness is a key social skill, as well as a tool for making your relationships more equal. Learning to respond more effectively to others can help you reduce stress and increase your sense of self-worth. In this fully updated and revised tenth edition, you'll learn practical advice on dealing with difficult people, handling criticism, and expressing your feelings. You'll also discover how to use humor in conflict resolution, ways to clarify others' intentions, and how to distinguish between encouraging and discouraging communication habits. This edition also includes a new introduction by coauthor Robert Alberti, in addition to research and information on the subjects of anger and interpersonal communication. Assertiveness is an alternative to personal powerlessness or manipulation. The program in this book will help you develop effective ways to express yourself, maintain your self-respect, and show respect for others. This is not a "me-first" book-it's all about equal-relationship assertiveness!. show lessTags
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All-new edition of the most widely recommended assertiveness training book helps readers develop more effective self-expression with detailed procedures, examples, stories and exercises. The ninth edition has been completely revised and updated to include new material on assertive expression in email and social networks, what to do when assertiveness doesn't work, anger expression, persistence, treatments for social anxiety, giving and receiving criticism, facial expression research, social intelligence, personal boundaries, components of assertive behavior, recent brain research. Not another "me-first" book -- It's all about equal-relationship assertiveness.
Excellent help book for people who have a problem with assertiveness (for whatever reason). It can be extremely frustrating when you aren't assertive, even if you don't show it on the outside.
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Robert E. Alberti, Ph.D., is uniquely qualified to have written YOUR PERFECT WRITE: psychologist, author/co-author of three books, former university professor, book publisher. His first book, YOUR PERFECT RIGHT: A GUIDE TO ASSERTIVE LIVING (written with Michael L. Emmons) has sold over a million copies in combined hardcover, trade paperback, mass show more market paperback, and five foreign language editions. For the last two decades, as a self-help book publisher, he has evaluated hundreds of good and not-so-good manuscripts, and edited dozens of books. Now he's decided to "preach what he practices." show less
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