Uptight and In Your Face: Coping with an Anxious Boss, Parent, Spouse, or Lover (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780313385551)

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.

Author: Nina Brown
ISBN-10: 0313385556
ISBN-13: 9780313385551
Publisher: Praeger
Language: English
Published: 11/02/2010
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.10w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 01/01/2011 pg. 18
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2011 pg. 8