Wellness Workbook links for:

Chapter 9: Wellness and Communicating

9.11 Checking That Help Is Wanted Rescuer's Checklist

Adapted, with permission, from Valerie Lankford (www.valcanhelp.com) and Paschal Baute, Ph.D. (www.paschalbaute.com).

Suggested Reading (with links to purchase the book at Amazon.com) coming soon

Note: Amazon listings change as new editions come out--please notify us if one of the listings below becomes obsolete --thank you

• Alberti, R., and M. Emmons, Your Perfect Right (Impact Publishers, 2001).
• Avruch, K., and P. Black, Conflict Resolution (Praeger, 1998).
• Beattie, M., Codependent No More (Hazelden, 1996).
• Blanton, B., Radical Honesty (DPT, 1996).
• Bolton, R., People Skills (Touchstone, 1989).
• Bradshaw, J., Healing the Shame That Binds You (Health Communications, 1988).
• Campbell, S., Getting Real (HJ Kramer, 2001).
• Fanning, P., M. McKay, and M. Davis, Message: The Communication Skills Book (New Harbinger Publications, 1995).
• Fisher, R., et al., Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In (Penguin, 1991).
• Gordon, T., Parent Effectiveness Training (Three Rivers Press, 2000).
• Hendricks, G., Conscious Loving: The Journey to Co-Commitment (Bantam, 1992).
• Hendrix, H., Getting the Love You Want (Owl, 2001).
• James, M., and D. Jongeward, Born to Win (Perseus, 1996).
• Lovelock, J., Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth (Oxford University Press, 2000).
• McKay, M., et al., Messages: The Communication Skills Book (New Harbinger Publications, 1995).
• Odent, M., Primal Health: Understanding the Critical Period between Conception and the First Birthday (Clairview Books, 2002).
• Ornish, D., Love and Survival: The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy (Perennial, 1998).
• Powell, J., Why Am I Afraid to Tell You Who I Am? (Thomas More, 1995).
• Prather, H., Notes to Myself (Bantam, 1983).
• Reusch, J., Therapeutic Communication (Guilford Press, 1998).
• Rogers, C., On Becoming a Person (Mariner, 1995).
• Rosenberg, M., Nonviolent Communication (PuddleDancer Press, 1999).
• Seligman, M., Authentic Happiness (Free Press, 2002).
• Tannen, D., You Just Don't Understand: Men and Women in Conversation (Quill, 2001).
• Thomas, L., The Lives of a Cell (Penguin, 1997).

Notes

1. Odent, M., Primal Health: Understanding the Critical Period between Conception and the First Birthday (Clairview Books, 2002). See also www.birthworks.org/ primalhealth.

2. Hayakawa, S. I., Through the Communication Barrier (Harper and Row, 1979), 73.

3. Rogers, C., "Communication: Its Blocking and Its Facilitation," ETC. Vol. 9 (Winter 1952), 84.

4. Tannen, D., You Just Don't Understand: Men and Women in Conversation (Quill, 2001).

5. This material is well-summarized in "Working on Common Cross-Cultural Communication Challenges," by Marcelle E. DuPraw, National Institute for Dispute Resolution and Marya Axner, consultant in leadership development and diversity awareness. Their overview is posted at www.wwcd.org/action/ampu/crosscult.html#PATTERNS.