Assertive Option : Your Rights and Responsibilities
by Patricia Jakubowski, Arthur J. Lange
Category: Psychology

A self-instructional manual that provides specific techniques for changing thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that support nonassertiveness or aggressiveness. The authors provide 33 practice exercises designed to build assertiveness skills that help reduce or prevent excessive anxiety, extreme anger, depression, guilt, worrying, or catastrophizing. The Assertive Option is a widely used text for college counseling courses and is often used as the participant's manual for assertion training groups.