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Show Assertiveness Training Planned By Mental Health BOUNTIFUL - Community education classes in Assertiveness Training for youth and adults and for Stress Management will be offered in coming weeks in Bountiful Bounti-ful by the Davis County Mental Health Center. BEGINNING May 15, an eight week class in Assertiveness Training Train-ing for Youth will be held from 5-6:30 5-6:30 p.m. The class, specifically designed for youth between the ages of 12 and 17, will be taught by Connie Chatlin. Special emphasis will be placed on conversational skills, building self-esteem and dealing with peer pressure and coping cop-ing with parents. Others are coping with criticism, handling angry feelings and anxiety, anxie-ty, making and refusing requests, and giving and receiving compliments. compli-ments. ASSERTIVENESS Training for Adult Men and Women is a separate sepa-rate class starting Tuesday, May 22 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. The class instructor, in-structor, Peggy Whitehead, will help participants to acquire more self-respect and take control over their lives by instructing them in the non-aggressive expression of their thoughts, feelings and ideas in a more direct and open way. Skill areas to be addressed include in-clude saying no. coping with criticism, critic-ism, dealing with anger and anxie ty, making requests, asking for a change in behavior and compliments. compli-ments. FOR MORE information, or to register for the Assertiveness Training Classes, call Peggy at 298-3446. 298-3446. A Stress Management class will also begin Tuesday, May 22 from 6-8 p.m. The eight session class will meet on Tuesday and Thursday Thurs-day evenings for four weeks. TRAVIS Campbell, ACSW, will conduct the 10-15 member class. The class will address the physical aspects of the stress response, identification of potential sources of stress and the functional or not-so-functional adaptations we make to it. A personal assessment or stressors and stress levels will also be done. Stress management techniques will emphasize problem solving and controlling irrational thinking patterns. Other techniques such as relaxation exercises and meditation medita-tion will also be covered. THERE IS a registration fee of $32 for all three classes described above; however, 50 percent of that class will be rebated if class participants partici-pants attend all eight sessions. Pre-registration Pre-registration for the classes is requested. re-quested. Please call Joanne or Peggy Peg-gy at 298-3446 for more information informa-tion or to pre-register. |