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Show Assertiveness training to begin Davis County Mental Health is offering an Assertiveness Training course for youth, ages 12-17. This course is being made available in response to the recognized need for young people to acquire skills for resistance to peer pressure, coping with criticism, decision making, and increasing self-esteem. self-esteem. One primary purpose of the class is to prepare them for the added stresses they encounter in junior high and high school, as well as in the years which follow. Young people, as they enter adolescence, involve themselves more and more outside the home with friends. Peer groups are functional func-tional at this stage because they allow the development of social skills necessary in adulthood, but they also are a source of stress as group members pressure each other to conform to group norms. One of the goals of this course is to give class members the skill to balance ba-lance the need for being themselves them-selves with the need to be accepted by a group. Emphasis will also be placed on the development of a healthy self- esteem a quality which builds on itself as young people learn that they are able to achieve realistic goals and make effective and wise decisions for themselves. This course will meet eight con-. con-. secutive Thursday evenings from 5-6:30 p.m. at the Layton Mental Health Center, 2250 N. 1700 W., beginning Oct. 22. Connie Chatlin will be the instructor and the cost for the course will be $32 per participant. parti-cipant. For more information or to register, please call Bill Patenaude, 298-3446. |