Reviews of teaching/learning resources

Abstract

ASSERTIVENESS TRAINING LITERATURE: POSSIBILITIES FOR CLASSROOM APPLICATION

CONFIDENCE IN COMMUNICATION: A GUIDE TO ASSERTIVE AND SOCIAL SKILLS. By Ronald B. Adler. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1977; pp. 327. Paper. $6.95.

ASSERTING YOURSELF: A PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR POSITIVE CHANGE. By Sharon Anthony Bower and Gordan H. Bower. Reading, Mass.: Addison‐Wesley, 1976; pp. 244. Paper. $4.95.

ASSERTION TRAINING: A HUMANISTIC‐BEHAVIORAL GUIDE TO SELF‐DIGNITY. By Sherwin B. Cotler and Julio J. Guerra. Champaign, Ill.: Research Press, 1976; pp. 229. Paper. $5.95.

RESPONSIBLE ASSERTIVE BEHAVIOR: COGNITIVE/BEHAVIORAL PROCEDURES FOR TRAINERS. By Arthur J. Lange and Patricia Jakubowski. Champaign, Ill.: Research Press, 1976; pp. 323. Paper. $6.95.

PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS: GUIDING PEOPLE TO ASSERT THEMSELVES AND IMPROVE THEIR SOCIAL SKILLS. By Robert Paul Liberman, Larry W. King, William J. DeRisi, and Michael McCann. Champaign, Ill.: Research Press, 1975; pp. 169. Paper. $5.95.

TEACHING AND ASSESSING INTERPERSONAL COMPETENCE‐A CAEL HANDBOOK. By Paul Breen, Thomas F. Donlon, and Urban Whitaker. Princeton: CAEL (Educational Testing Service), 1977; pp. ix+138. $6.00.

LEARNING AND ASSESSING INTERPERSONAL COMPETENCE‐A CAEL STUDENT GUIDE. By Paul Breen, Thomas F. Donlon, and Urban Whitaker. Princeton: CAEL (Educational Testing Service), 1977; pp. iv+103. $3.00.

PROSPECTS AND METHODS FOR INTERPERSONAL STUDIES. Institutional Report No. 2 prepared at Empire State College, (revised edition) Princeton: CAEL (Educational Testing Service), 1977; pp. vi+57. $2.00.

THE REFINEMENT AND MODIFICATION OF AN INSTRUMENT FOR ASSESSING THE ACHIEVEMENT OF INTERPERSONAL SKILLS OF SOCIAL WORK STUDENTS. Institutional Report No. 4 prepared at The School of Social Work and The Center for Urban Studies at Wayne State University. Princeton: CAEL (Educational Testing Service), 1975; pp. 64. $2.00.

CONTEMPORARY SPEECH: A COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH TO COMMUNICATION. By Mary Hopkins and Beverly Whitaker, Skokie, IL: National Textbook Company, 1976; pp. 316. Thirty copies plus guide, $225.75; $11 each.

TALK IN THE LANGUAGE ARTS CLASSROOM. By Melvin L. Klein. Forward by Robert C. Pooley. Urbana, Illinois: ERIC and National Council of Teachers of English, 1977; pp. vii+60. 52.95.

CREATIVE INTERVIEWING. By Ken Metzler, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1977; pp. 174. $6.95.

COMMUNICATING THROUGH BEHAVIOR. Edited by William E. Arnold and Robert O. Hirsch. St. Paul: West Publishing Company, 1977; pp. ix+315. Paper. $7.95.

MESSAGES: A READER IN HUMAN COMMUNICATION. Edited by Jean M. Civikly. (Second Edition) New York: Random House, 1977; pp. xii+394. Paper. $6.95.

SPEAK WITH CONFIDENCE: A PRACTICAL GUIDE. By Albert J. Vasile and Harold K. Mintz. Cambridge: Winthrop Publishers, Inc., 1977; pp. xii+302. Paper. $5.95.