Anger and Aggression Workbook

by Dr. John J. Liptak and Ester A. Leutenberg

Help participants make constructive changes to better manage their anger and aggression

The Anger and Aggression Workbook will help participants learn how anger and aggression are impacting their lives, and how to make constructive changes, gain insight and learn strategies. Each section of the book contains self-assessment instruments, activity handouts, reflection questions for journaling, and educational handouts—all reproducible.

This book has been designed as a practical tool for therapists, counselors, psychologists, teachers, and group leaders. It is divided into five sections:

• Anger History
• Anger Intensity
• Anger Triggers
• Anger Expression
• Anger Consequences

Depending on the role of the professional and the group’s needs, each section of the book can be used individually or combined for a more comprehensive approach. The activities can also be self-administered.

IAAW / $49.95
 

The Communication Skills Workbook

by John J Liptak, EdD and Ester A Leutenberg

Self-Assessments, Exercises and Educational Handouts

The Communication Skills Workbook uses two powerful psychological tools designed to enhance communication skills: self-assessment and journaling. Participants will learn more about themselves as well as the impact of effective and ineffective communication patterns.

Each section of the book uses self-assessments, activities, journaling and educational handouts to explore:

• Active listening
• Nonverbal communication
• Communication skills
• Awareness and empathy skills
• Negotiation skills

Each section begins with a self-assessment that is easy to administer, score and interpret. Follow-up activities, journaling and educational handouts—all reproducible—help individuals discover their habitual, ineffective methods of communicating with others and explore new ways for enhancing interpersonal communications.

ICSW / $49.95

The Substance Abuse and
Recovery Workbook

by John J Liptak, Ed.D and Ester Leutenberg

Self-Assessments, Exercises and Educational Handouts

The Substance Abuse and Recovery Workbook contains self-assessments, exploratory activities, reflective journaling exercises and educational handouts—all reproducible—to help participants discover their habitual and ineffective methods of managing substance abuse, and to explore new ways for bringing about healing.
The book contains five sections that help individuals:

• Determine the level of their addiction
• Examine personality traits that predispose them to various addictions
• Measure codependency characteristics
• Understand relapse warning signs
• Identify excuses they may be using to continue their abuse of substances

Addictions come in many shapes and forms. The assessments and activities in help participants deal with a wide variety of addictions including:

• Drug and alcohol, Caffeine, Tobacco Products
• Computers, Gambling, and More

ISAW / $49.95

The Domestic Violence
Survival Workbook

by John J Liptak, EdD & Ester Leutenberg

Domestic abuse is very complex and can take many different forms—physical, sexual, psychological, emotional and verbal. The five sections of the workbook help participants learn skills for recognizing and effectively dealing with abusive relationships.

• Symptoms of Abuse
• Types of Abuse
• Partner Behavior
• Elder Abuse
• Self-Empowerment

IDVW / $49.95

The Successful Team-Building Workbook

by John J Liptak, EdD & Ester Leutenberg

Team building refers to a process of establishing and developing a sense of collaboration, open communication, and trust among team members. The five sections of the workbook help participants recognize the unique strengths and weaknesses of themselves as well as other team members, and learn skills for building, maintaining, and motivating a cohesive team.

• Team Player Characteristics
• Team Roles
• Team Personalities
• Team Leadership
• Team Communication

ITBW / $49.95

The Practical Life Skills Workbook

by John J Liptak, EdD & Ester Leutenberg

Life skills are actually more important than a person's intelligence quotient (IQ). They are those invaluable skills people use every day that, if used effectively, allow them to create the life they desire and to access their inner resources needed to succeed.

A person's life skills IQ is comprised of many types of intelligence including physical, mental, career, emotional, social, and spiritual intelligence. This book will help participants learn more about themselves and the competencies they possess in many life skills areas including:.

• Problem-solving
• Money management
• Time management
• Self-awareness
• Personal change

IPLW / $49.95

The Wellness Lifestyle Workbook

by John J Liptak, EdD & Ester Leutenberg

Wellness and health are interrelated, but distinct concepts. Health is considered free from disease. Wellness is much more complex. Wellness is the ability to fully integrate physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual well-being into an effective lifestyle.

This workbook contains six sections to help participants learn more about themselves and their lifestyles. They will learn about a wellness lifestyle that promotes health and well-being by exploring:

• Coping with stress
• Physical fitness
• Creative leisure
• Healthy relationships
• Spiritual wellness
• Life skills

IWLW / $49.95

The Essential Work Skills Workbook

by John J Liptak, EdD & Ester Leutenberg

Given the rapid rate of change in the workplace, prospective workers need to develop new skill sets to cope and thrive in this changing economy. Mergers, takeovers, and business closings will continue to be the business norm. Workers with the most eff ective work skills will be the most likely to retain their position and even thrive in the workplace. The purpose of this workbook is to provide workers and prospective workers with the requisite skills they will need to be successful in any work setting.

The workbook contains five separate sections to help participants learn more about themselves and the works skills that they possess that are fundamental to their ability to work eff ectively. They will learn about the importance of these skills in the changing workplace and complete assessments and activities to define the required workplace skills and determine their skill gaps in the workplace.

• Leadership Skills
• Work Stress
• Cultural Competency
  
• Organizational Skills
  
• Balancing Work and leisure

IEWW / $49.95

Discovering Your Spiritual Path Workbook

by John J Liptak, EdD & Ester Leutenberg

Spirituality is a critical component of the overall concept of wellness. Spiritual wellness has been described as a process of getting in touch with your inner self by exploring the spiritual themes in your life and thereby discovering your personal spiritual ideas and understandings. One of the goals of this workbook is to open participants to the possibilities of spirituality and its benefi ts and to either start them on their spiritual path or assist them in enriching their present spiritual path.

Discovering Your Spiritual Path contains fi ve separate sections to help participants learn more about themselves and their spiritual natures. They will learn about the importance of spirituality, their ability to integrate spirituality into their everyday lives, and tools and techniques to enhance their spiritual awareness.

• Forgiveness and Acceptance
• Connecting with Others
  
• Spiritual living
  
• Personal Centering
  
• Spiritual Awareness

IDWS / $49.95

The Personal and Intimate Relationship Skills Workbook

by John J Liptak, EdD & Ester Leutenberg

Being in an intimate relationship can be one of the most joyful experiences imaginable. Intimate relationships play a critical role in a person’s overall health and wellness. An intimate relationship provides an antidote to the worries, tension, depression and the
stress of our everyday lives. Intimate relationships can be the best—and the most challenging—part of a person’s experience. The goal of this workbook is to help each participant explore personal and partner behaviors.

The workbook’s five separate sections help participants learn more about themselves, and the skills that are fundamental to developing and maintaining healthy relationships. They will discover and better understand the importance of these skills in living in harmony with a relationship partner.

• Partner Communication Skills
  
• Personality Characteristics
  
• Relationship Needs
  
• Relationship Intimacy
  
• Relationship Conflicts

IPRW / $49.95

The Conflict Management Skills Workbook

by John J Liptak, EdD & Ester Leutenberg

Conflict is a basic fact of life. Because conflicts are disagreements resulting from people or groups having differences in attitudes, beliefs, values, or needs, conflict is inevitable. Conflict itself is not a bad thing, as long as the conflict is managed effectively.

The self-assessments, exercises, and journaling activities in this book will take participants through a unique Negotiations Model. This model helps participants learn about their beliefs surrounding conflict, identify their preferred style for managing conflict, examine active listening skills, identify the situations that trigger conflict, and recognize their negotiation style for what they want and need.

• Beliefs about conflict
• Conflict management styles
• Active listening skills
• Determining hot buttons
• Negotiation styles

ICMW/$49.95

Mental Health & Life Skills Collection

All 11 books in one collection!

IMHC/$384.67

About the Authors

Dr. John J. Liptak frequently conducts workshops on assessment-related topics. With Kathy Khalsa and Ester Leutenberg, he has written three other comprehensive books for teachers and counselors to use with their students and clients: The Self-Esteem Program, The Social Skills Program and The Stress Management Program: Inventories, Activities & Educational Handouts.

Fran Zamore, LISW, IMFT is a clinical social worker, marriage and family therapist, Reiki Master and student of energy healing.  She has extensive experience working with individuals, couples and groups as well as leading workshops.  She creatively integrates physical, mental, spiritual and emotional awareness in her work.  Her private practice focuses on life transitions, personal and spiritual growth, and loss, grief and healing.

As with most people, Fran’s life experience informs her work.  The depth of her knowledge and understanding has been enhanced from her own healing journey after the eight-year illness and subsequent death of her husband in 2005.  Since his death Fran has focused her professional energy toward helping others navigate the journey from loss to a New Normal.   Fran is currently the Bereavement Coordinator of a hospice program in Cleveland, Ohio.

Ester A. Leutenberg has worked in the mental health profession for many years as both a publisher and as an advocate for those suffering from loss.  She personally experienced a loss when her son Mitchell, after struggling with a mental illness for eight years, died by suicide in 1986.  Soon after, as a way of both healing and helping others, she co-founded Wellness Reproductions & Publishing.  Ester began developing therapeutic products that help facilitators help their clients.  She is the co-author of the book Meaningful Life Skills for older adults, the eight-book Life Management Skills series for adults, The Anger & Aggression Workbook, The Communications Skills Workbook, and The Substance Abuse & Recovery Workbook.

Ester, a breast cancer survivor of five years, has counseled other survivors in overcoming body-loss issues.  She says that GriefWork – Healing from Loss is the culmination of a book she has been formulating in her mind for almost thirty years.