Marian Volkman’s LIFE SKILLS introduces a unique approach to improving your quality of life.  A series of information chapters is followed by self-assessment projects and worksheets to help you take stock of yourself and the information you have just learned.

Inside this book, you will find chapters dealing with improving your quality of life, learning to manage traumatic stress, improving relationships, understanding your emotional highs and lows, dealing with success and failure, understanding human behavior, improving communications, and much more.  Chapters are not so long as to become tedious, but they are also very thorough for their shorter length.  The contents and material covered are both clear and easy to manage.  You do not need to dedicate hours to the reading material; most of the material is short and to the point, but applying it to your life is easy to do and where you will reap the most reward.

LIFE SKILLS should be required reading for most anyone in today’s busy and stressful world.  I think the world would be a nicer place if people could take the time to stop and think about the effect they have on those around them.