Assertiveness in the Health Domain explores the transformative power of assertiveness within the health sector through a holistic, interdisciplinary, and culturally sensitive lens. This comprehensive guide offers invaluable tools and strategies for educators, parents, caregivers, and health professionals to cultivate assertive skills, enhance the quality of care, and improve teamwork and interpersonal relationships in health-related environments and educational institutions.
Authors Susana Castańos-Cervantes and Connie Atristain-Suįrez offer practical intervention techniques tailored for diverse groups including college students, children, adolescents, older adults, homemakers, and homeless girls. Coverage includes critical issues such as the doctor-patient relationship, dementia care, and the role of assertiveness in sports and health institutions. The findings are drawn from the latest research and emerging trends in assertiveness, with a focus on practices in the US, Spain, and Latin America, ensuring readers have access to the most current and relevant information in this dynamic field.
With its wide-ranging scope, theoretical and methodological depth, and practical applications, this book is an essential resource for researchers, academics, upper-level postgraduate students, and leaders in private, public, and third-sector organizations.
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1. Assertiveness in the Health Domain: The Path to
Self-fulfilment, Wellness, and Professional Success; Susana
Castańos-Cervantes and Connie Atristain-Suįrez
PART I. Assertiveness as a Valuable Tool for a Healthy Psychosocial
Development and for Personal and Social Growth
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2. Training of Functional Assertiveness as a Confluence of Social
Effectiveness into Adolescence; Angélica Ojeda Garcķa
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3. Mexican Housewives Assertiveness and Well-being; Luis Fernando
Arias-Galicia
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4. Assertiveness, Emotional Intelligence, and Technology:
Opportunities during Preschool Years; Marie Leiner de la Cabada, Marķa Elena
Dįvila-Dķaz, Marķa Elena del Rosario Guzmįn Sįnchez, Marķa Nela Olarte Ortiz,
and Marķa Theresa Villanos
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5. Psychosocial Characteristics of Mexican Girls and Female
Adolescents at Risk of Homelessness; Susana Castańos-Cervantes
PART II. Assertiveness and its Implications for Health Care and in
Health-related Scenarios
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6. In Search of a New Assertiveness in the Doctor-patient
Relationship; Andrea Alejandra Garcķa Cervantes and Fernando Sebastiįn
Įngeles-Téllez
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7. Implications of Assertive Behaviour in Sport: Its Influence on
Athletes, Family, and Coaches; Alfonso Ignacio Martķnez Samperio and Gabriela
Orozco-Calderón
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8. The Value of Assertiveness in Patient Care in Health Institutions
under the Expert Systems Approach; Antonia Terįn-Bustamante and Antonieta
Martķnez-Velasco
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9. Efficacy and Limitations of Training in Assertive Social Skills
for Older People Caring for a Relative with Dementia; José Marķa León-Rubio,
José Marķa León-Pérez, and Francisco Javier Cantero-Sįnchez
PART III. Assertiveness as a Core Skill for Clinical Practice and Healthy
Interpersonal Relationships
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10. The Reciprocal Influence of Assertiveness and Mental Health in
the Classroom: The View of the Faculty; Angélica Riveros Rosas, Juan José
Sįnchez Sosa, and Rosa Martha Barona Peńa
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11. Assertiveness and Mental Health; Isadora Rossa, Myllena Diessy da
Silva, Sthefany Graziela Zwetsch Gomes, and Ilana Andretta
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12. Assertiveness in Patients with Social Anxiety Disorder; William
Alves de Oliveira, Yunue Tenopala Espinosa, Eduardo Įngel Garibay Giordani,
Donovan Casas Patińo, and Alejandra Rodrķguez Torres
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13. Measuring and Assessing Assertiveness: Challenges for Improving
Practices; Claudia Ivethe Jaén Cortés, Laura Amada Hernįndez Trejo, and
Samuel Acosta Galvįn
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14. Assertiveness in the Health Domain: Final Reflections and
Implications; Susana Castańos-Cervantes
Susana Castańos-Cervantes is the Social Service Coordinator of the School of Psychology at Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City, Mexico. As a community clinical psychologist, she works closely with private and governmental institutions that serve vulnerable people.
Connie Atristain-Suįrez is the Director of the Business Science PhD and a full-time professor and researcher at the Universidad Panamericana, Campus Mexico City.
