Guide to Compassionate Assertiveness - Softcover

Vavrichek, Sherrie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1608821714 ISBN 13: 9781608821716

Publisher: New Harbinger Publications, 2012

Synopsis

Speaking up for yourself has benefits, but it has costs, too. Many people who struggle with assertiveness are paralyzed by worries that they'll seem mean, petty, or that they will hurt the other person's feelings. Even though they want to speak up, they may keep their true needs and opinions to themselves because of these fears-eventually building stress, resentment, and alienation. The Guide to Compassionate Assertiveness does not require that readers ignore the needs of others and focus solely on their own desires. Rather, this unique blend of cognitive behavioural therapy-based assertiveness training and Buddhist psychology helps readers practice assertiveness skills while caring deeply about the welfare of others. This book helps readers develop a form of assertiveness that emphasizes collaboration, negotiation, and compromise. It focuses on speaking up for the benefit of others and speaking up for the relationship, not just one's own needs. In this way, readers learn to assert their needs in ways that match their compassionate value systems. This book is the ideal assertiveness guide for those who are afraid of rejection, have a deep concern for how others perceive them, often feel judged by others, or have difficulty expressing their feelings and needs. Readers learn to apply assertiveness skills in all domains of their lives, including in romantic relationships, as parents, at work, and in social settings.

About this title

About the Author

Sherrie M. Vavrichek, is a senior staff member at the Behavior Therapy Center of Greater Washington, in the Washington DC, area. She has extensive experience as a cognitive behavioural therapist, is a published author, and has presented at national conferences on numerous mental health topics, including compassionate assertiveness.

Edition details

• Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1608821714
• ISBN 13: 9781608821716
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224