Chapter 7

About.com: This site provides many links dealing with sexual harassment and is a great source for research material.

Abuse Counseling and Treatment Inc.: This site provides a profile of a potential batterer. Provides information useful for personal as well as academic study.

Assertiveness: The Navy’s perspective on what constitutes assertiveness. This site provides an assertiveness continuum to better explain the difference between passivity and over-aggressiveness.

Battered Women’s Alternatives: Provides answers to frequently asked questions about domestic violence, links to victim services, and further information.

Bio Online Career Center: Aimed at corporate managers, this site, gives advice on how to mentor a potential successor. An interesting point of view from the world of business.

Counseling and Mental Health Center—Learning to be Assertive: A simple site aimed at those who wish to develop their assertiveness. Links to other assertiveness sites are provided as well.

Counseling and Psychological Services: This site provides basic strategies for behaving more assertively. Eleven steps are listed giving suggestions on such things as describing feelings and asking for feedback.

Husband Battering: A site that provides links to articles, cases, and personal testimony involving husband battering. Provides an interesting view from a male’s perspective.

Kings Communications: This site discusses some commonly held irrational beliefs about assertiveness. Useful if you are not clear on the concept of assertiveness.

Looksmart: Follow the links from the main site through library, society, law, branches of law, employment, and finally to sexual harassment where a list of the ten most visited sites on the subject is provided. Very helpful for research.

The National Mentoring Partnership: Many resources are provided including how to be a mentor, how to join NMP and links to other mentoring sites.

Penn State Information on Sexual Harassment: A comprehensive site dealing with sexual harassment. Areas covered include legal definitions, case studies, theory and analysis, and much more. Excellent research site.

Psychological Self-Help Assertiveness Training: This site provides advice on giving assertive responses in the face of criticism and other difficult situations.

Sexual Harassment Information Page: Numerous links are provided to various sites dealing with sexual harassment. This is an excellent, and comprehensive, jumping off point for research.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission—Facts About Sexual Harassment: This site explains facts about sexual harassment.