Assertiveness in the Health Domain
The Path to Self-fulfilment, Wellness, and Professional Success in Emerging and Developing Countries
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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 Castaños-Cervantes and Connie Atristain-Suárez 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.
Chapter 1. Assertiveness in the Health Domain: The Path to Self-fulfilment, Wellness, and Professional Success; Susana Castaños-Cervantes and Connie Atristain-Suárez
- PART I. Assertiveness as a Valuable Tool for a Healthy Psychosocial Development and for Personal and Social Growth
- Chapter 2. Training of Functional Assertiveness as a Confluence of Social Effectiveness into Adolescence; Angélica Ojeda García
- Chapter 3. Mexican Housewives’ Assertiveness and Well-being; Luis Fernando Arias-Galicia
- Chapter 4. Assertiveness, Emotional Intelligence, and Technology: Opportunities during Preschool Years; Marie Leiner de la Cabada, María Elena Dávila-Díaz, María Elena del Rosario Guzmán Sánchez, María Nela Olarte Ortiz, and María Theresa Villanos
- Chapter 5. Psychosocial Characteristics of Mexican Girls and Female Adolescents at Risk of Homelessness; Susana Castaños-Cervantes
- PART II. Assertiveness and its Implications for Health Care and in Health-related Scenarios
- Chapter 6. In Search of a New Assertiveness in the Doctor-patient Relationship; Andrea Alejandra García Cervantes and Fernando Sebastián Ángeles-Téllez
- Chapter 7. Implications of Assertive Behaviour in Sport: Its Influence on Athletes, Family, and Coaches; Alfonso Ignacio Martínez Samperio and Gabriela Orozco-Calderón
- Chapter 8. The Value of Assertiveness in Patient Care in Health Institutions under the Expert Systems Approach; Antonia Terán-Bustamante and Antonieta Martínez-Velasco
- Chapter 9. Efficacy and Limitations of Training in Assertive Social Skills for Older People Caring for a Relative with Dementia; José María León-Rubio, José María León-Pérez, and Francisco Javier Cantero-Sánchez
- PART III. Assertiveness as a Core Skill for Clinical Practice and Healthy Interpersonal Relationships
- Chapter 10. The Reciprocal Influence of Assertiveness and Mental Health in the Classroom: The View of the Faculty; Angélica Riveros Rosas, Juan José Sánchez Sosa, and Rosa Martha Barona Peña
- Chapter 11. Assertiveness and Mental Health; Isadora Rossa, Myllena Diessy da Silva, Sthefany Graziela Zwetsch Gomes, and Ilana Andretta
- Chapter 12. Assertiveness in Patients with Social Anxiety Disorder; William Alves de Oliveira, Yunue Tenopala Espinosa, Eduardo Ángel Garibay Giordani, Donovan Casas Patiño, and Alejandra Rodríguez Torres
- Chapter 13. Measuring and Assessing Assertiveness: Challenges for Improving Practices; Claudia Ivethe Jaén Cortés, Laura Amada Hernández Trejo, and Samuel Acosta Galván
- Chapter 14. Assertiveness in the Health Domain: Final Reflections and Implications; Susana Castaños-Cervantes
Susana Castaños-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-Suárez is the Director of the Business Science PhD and a full-time professor and researcher at the Universidad Panamericana, Campus Mexico City.