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The Assertive Option: Your Rights and Responsibilities

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THE ASSERTIVE OPTION may be an "older" title (1978), but it remains one of the best resources in clearly understanding and changing your ability to effectively assert yourself! A must for the library of helping professionals (the reviewer is a psychologist), it is easily readable by lay audiences, yet contains dynamic insights and sugestions for all readers. Jakubowski educates the reader as to the "personal rights" of every individual - the basis for allowing the self to stand up and be counted - as well as step-by-step guidelines to effective assertive behavior and communication.

I could type 1000 'thankyou's. For those of us who grew up in an abusive envirionment subject to brutal aggressive behavior this book is a life saver. The easy to read and real-life style make it especially useful.

My original exposure to this book was in a class I took prior to 1984. I still refer to it when ever I need to reinforce confidence in myself and my ability to behave in an assertive manner even when challenged by highly charged emotional situations.

I've read some of the classics on assertiveness.
For me, this book was the only one that made a lasting difference.
I think that this is one of the top 3 REBT related books.

I liked (and used) this book so much that when a person I lent it to lost it, I just had to buy it again. It changed the life of a patient of mine and can change yours too.

I'm slowly making my way through this book. I've wanted to get over being as aggressive as I am. It hasn't done me any good, for the most part. I've tried some of the methods and they work! I feel better inside and am kinder to myself in the process. If you take your time, this book will help anyone whose interested.

This book I had to buy for a course in college eight years ago. It was an old book then but the teacher said there was no better book out there. The class was called, "Assertive Communication" It was one of the best things I have done in life that helped me so much in finding what boundaries are about and in communicating the right way. I still read this book now and then, because we forget.