Description
Here are the eight skills this book will help you master: 1. Identify your thoughts and feelings: how to tap into your feelings, especially the negative ones
2. Evaluate your negative feelings, negative thoughts, and options: how to decide when to take action
3. Communicate better: how to be a more effective listener and speaker
4. Empathize with others to understand their behavior: how to appreciate a situation from someone else's point of view
5. Do problem-solving: how to define the problem, generate alternatives, and evaluate the outcomes
6. Practice assertion: how to get others to do what you want
7. Practice acceptance: how to back off without feeling like a failure
8. Emphasize the positive: how to build better relationships using a proven ratio of positive to negative interactions Lifeskills shows how building better relationships is an essential part of preserving health--and offers eight clear steps anyone can use to make that happen.
Author: Redford Williams
Publisher: Harmony/Rodale
Published: 05/04/1999
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 8.56h x 5.56w x 0.89d
ISBN13: 9780812931969
ISBN10: 0812931963
BISAC Categories:
- Self-Help | Personal Growth | Self-Esteem
- Psychology | Psychotherapy | Counseling
2. Evaluate your negative feelings, negative thoughts, and options: how to decide when to take action
3. Communicate better: how to be a more effective listener and speaker
4. Empathize with others to understand their behavior: how to appreciate a situation from someone else's point of view
5. Do problem-solving: how to define the problem, generate alternatives, and evaluate the outcomes
6. Practice assertion: how to get others to do what you want
7. Practice acceptance: how to back off without feeling like a failure
8. Emphasize the positive: how to build better relationships using a proven ratio of positive to negative interactions Lifeskills shows how building better relationships is an essential part of preserving health--and offers eight clear steps anyone can use to make that happen.
Author: Redford Williams
Publisher: Harmony/Rodale
Published: 05/04/1999
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 8.56h x 5.56w x 0.89d
ISBN13: 9780812931969
ISBN10: 0812931963
BISAC Categories:
- Self-Help | Personal Growth | Self-Esteem
- Psychology | Psychotherapy | Counseling
About the Author
Virginia Williams, Ph.D., is a historian and author. Redford Williams, M.D., is director of The Behavioral Medical Research Center at Duke University and a professor of psychiatry and an associate professor of medicine. Their last collaboration was Anger Kills: Seventeen Strategies for Controlling the Hostility That Can Harm Your Health.