It was Patricia Evans who first brought the critical issue of verbal abuse to national attention with the publication of her groundbreaking classic "The Verbally Abusive Relationship". In the decade since, she's become the foremost advocate for the billions of victims of verbal abuse here and around the world. From her bestselling books to her ...
The authors of the "New York Times" bestseller "Crucial Conversations" show you how to achieve personal, team, and organizational success by healing broken promises, resolving violated expectations, and influencing bad behaviour. You can discover skills to resolve touchy, controversial, and complex issues at work and at home now available in this ...
This book shows parents how to break the destructive cycle of guilt and blame and work toward greater understanding and communication with their adolescents. Readers can learn how to see the world through their children's eyes, how to win cooperation without having to threaten, and more. Includes study guide and series of worksheets.
"If I'd had a copy of this book when I started therapy, I might have saved myself a lot of time and money. Bernstein provides a field guide to the various types of Emotional Vampires and advises readers how to protect themselves from being victims of these predatory personalities." - Diane White, "The Boston Globe". Emotional Vampires: They're out ...
Written for courses such as Communication and Conflict, Interpersonal Conflict, Conflict Management, Conflict and Negotiation, and Conflict in Personal Relationships, this textbook examines the central principles of effective conflict management in a wide variety of contexts - from romantic relationships to the workplace. Its combination of up-to ...
"Tired of arguing with your spouse over the same old issues? Longing for a marriage with less conflict and more intimacy? Struggling under a load of resentment?" Identify the source of missteps in your marriage-and learn exactly what you can do about it! In "How We Love, " relationship experts Milan and Kay Yerkovich draw on the powerful tool ...
According to Aaron Beck, many couples therapy books tend to focus on lack of communication in the relationship rather than the problem of miscommunication. This problem occurs when partners have lived together long enough that each begins to practice what Beck refers to as "presumed mind reading," i.e. one presumes to understand exactly what the ...
When a relationship ends, you ask; Why did this happen? When will this pain end? Why do I pick the lovers I do? Will I ever love again? Why is it so difficult to keep one love for a lifetime? Daphne Rose Kingma's book shares a new view of why we fall in and out of love, and why this painful process is not only natural, but essential if we are to ...
Outlines solutions to abusive relationships, tells victims where to find shelters and support groups, and analyzes why many therapists misdiagnose problems in violent relationships.
A manual for verbal self-defense explains how to transform hostility, eliminate aggression, handle tormenters, control emotion, and promote harmonious conversation.
Dr. Ellis, the founder of the Institute for Rational Emotive Therapy and the grandfather of cognitive behavior therapy, shows readers how to stop torturing themselves. How to Keep People from Pushing Your Buttons explains how to not only adjust, but learn how to get along well with obnoxious people.
Offering "real-world answers for real parents and real teenagers" (Anthony E.Wolf, Ph.D.), this compassionate handbook presents seven steps for parents toestablish authority and reclaim love. 34 illustrations.
Now in its tenth edition,Reaching Out, the most comprehensive, practical and applied text available on interpersonal skills, remains squarely focused on the dynamics found in virtually all interpersonal relationships. With new information about online interaction and relationships, expanded content on barriers to communication, and revised content ...
From the world's most-acclaimed expert on verbal abuse comes the first book that answers the question foremost in every woman's mind: can he really change? Combining practical applications with the latest clinical research with the trademark support and assurance of Evans, "The Verbally Abusive Man: Can He change?" shows victims of verbal abuse ...
These categories, drawn from the work of research-ers David W. Merrill and Roger H. Reid, can help you understand your own social style and styles of others. Techniques for reducing tension and tips for improving relationships and many more.
Learn to set boundaries with people who refuse to take responsibility for their own lives and drag others into their craziness. Dr. Hawkins describes how a disordered person thinks and teaches readers how to develop boundaries by changing their own responses.
Greene's first two guides, "The 48 Laws of Power" and "The Art of Seduction," espouse profound, timeless lessons from events in history to help readers vanquish an enemy or ensnare an unsuspecting victim. Now, he crafts a brilliant distillation of the strategies of battle that can help readers in the modern world.
Successful management depends on the ability to quickly and effectively manage conflicts. "Conflict Resolution" includes hands-on information for effectively communicating with employees, disciplining and even terminating employees, understanding and using organizational politics, and more.
This book in the Learning to Get Along series focuses on basic steps and skills for problem solving/conflict resolution with classmates, friends, and siblings.
Covering the whole range of conflict settings-interpersonal, group, and organizational-Working Through Conflict, Fourth Edition, provides an introduction to conflict management that is firmly grounded in current theory and research. Encompassing a broad spectrum of theoretical perspectives, the text includes an abundance of real life case studies ...
Littman and Hershon have written a smart, counterintuitive, and irreverent turn on the classic workplace self-help book that shows how to identify the Ten Least Wanted--the people that are hated--while revealing the strategies to neutralize them.
Cognitive Interpersonal Therapy (CIT) is a radically different method for developing more loving and satisfying relationships. In his latest work, Dr. Burns shows how to resolve virtually any kind of relationship conflict almost instantly by utilizing this method.
For everyone who has ever wondered how to deal with friends who hurt or reject, betray, or abandon them, this authoritative book provides invaluable insights and on-target advice on taking action to resolve the problem once and for all.
This title offers inspiration and advice for daughters on making peace with Mum while there's still time. Iris Krasnow - mother, daughter and journalist - tackles the toughest relationship in the lives of many women: the mother-daughter bond. With women's life expectancy inching up past eighty, you may be embroiled with your mother well past the ...
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