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The Guide to Compassionate Assertiveness : How to Express Your Needs and Deal with Conflict While Keeping a Kind Heart

The Guide to Compassionate Assertiveness : How to Express Your Needs and Deal with Conflict While Keeping a Kind Heart

The Guide to Compassionate Assertiveness : How to Express Your Needs and Deal with Conflict While Keeping a Kind Heart Paperback - 2012 - 1st Edition

by Sherrie M. Vavrichek

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  • Title The Guide to Compassionate Assertiveness : How to Express Your Needs and Deal with Conflict While Keeping a Kind Heart
  • Author Sherrie M. Vavrichek
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 200
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher New Harbinger Publications
  • Publication date 2012
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G1608821714I3N00
  • ISBN 9781608821716 / 1608821714
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.6 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 1.52 cm)
  • Category Psychology
  • Library of Congress subjects Interpersonal communication, Assertiveness (Psychology)
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2012011780
  • Dewey Decimal Code 158.2
  • Quantity available 1

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From the publisher

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 behavioral 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 the author

Sherrie M. Vavrichek, LCSW-C, is a cognitive behavioral therapist and published author who uses mindfulness, meditation, and Buddhist philosophy in her practice and in her life. She is a senior staff member at the Behavior Therapy Center of Greater Washington, and has presented at national conferences on numerous mental health topics, including compassionate assertiveness. Vavrichek lives and works in the Washington, DC area.

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