Dealing with uptight, high-stress people in your workplace, family, or home can be an enormous challenge, but this book provides invaluable insight and practical advice enabling readers to handle these 'problem' personality types successfully. It is often stated that communication is the most important aspect of creating an effective relationship or achieving goals when working with another individual or within a team. But how does one communicate with someone who is too intense, anxious, or self-absorbed to hear anything ...
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Dealing with uptight, high-stress people in your workplace, family, or home can be an enormous challenge, but this book provides invaluable insight and practical advice enabling readers to handle these 'problem' personality types successfully. It is often stated that communication is the most important aspect of creating an effective relationship or achieving goals when working with another individual or within a team. But how does one communicate with someone who is too intense, anxious, or self-absorbed to hear anything you're trying to say? In Uptight and In Your Face: Coping with an Anxious Boss, Parent, Spouse, or Lover the author presents an invaluable tutorial to successfully interact with the most frustrating and taxing people in your life. This text examines the five most common types of uptight people to illustrate how the underlying patterns of intensity, anxiety, and self-absorption are displayed. Considerable attention is given to help readers understand how they may be contributing to their own distress. The final chapters present numerous coping and self-development strategies that will help reduce or eliminate many of the detrimental effects of interacting with high-stress people. Descriptions of complex psychological concepts are explained in everyday language. Exercises provided give readers practical help in identifying troubling behaviors and attitudes of the uptight person, recognizing how and when they may be helping to cause their own distress, and developing insulating and coping skills
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 179 p. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 2010034546 Type of material Book Personal name Brown, Nina W. Main title Uptight and in your face: coping with an anxious boss, parent, spouse, or lover / Nina W. Brown. Published/Created Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, 2011. Description x, 179 p.; 25 cm. ISBN 9780313385551 (hbk. : alk. paper) 9780313385568 (ebook) LC classification BF637. I48 B76 2011 Portion of title Coping with an anxious boss, parent, spouse, or lover Contents Intense, anxious, and self-absorbed--What you see and feel--Their internal life--Anxious about deprivation: the impoverished-self hoarder type--Depriving self and others: the austere and withholding type--Wallowing in greed and excess: the indulgent and entitled type--"You will do what I want": the controlling and manipulative type--"Everyone and everything is against me": the revengeful complainer type--Why they get next to you: understand your reactions--Make it better for yourself: effective coping strategies. LC Subjects Interpersonal conflict. Interpersonal relations--Psychological aspects. Personality assessment. Stress (Psychology) Adjustment (Psychology) Notes Includes bibliographical references and index. Dewey class no. 158.2
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