Last updated: 7/2009

he power leveraging system in both academic and clinical settings

"Powerlessness" Will Often Be Misdiagnosed As:
Depressive Illness
Social Anxiety Disorder
Dependent Personaity Disorder
Stress Disorder
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Eating Disorders
Schizoid Personality
Attention Deficit
Compulsions and Addictive Disorders
Somatoform Disorder

Do You Feel Hopeless, Helpless or Powerless to Change Your Life ?
Exactly How Does it Feel To Be Powerless? - Most people experience powerlessness , or the loss of personal power, in one or several of the following ways:
Impaired self-concept and self-esteem
Feelings of frustration and hopelessness
Chronic depression and shame
A heightened stress response
Social anxiety and disrupted relationships

These symptoms are often diagnosed as psychiatric disorders, however, these are normal adjustments to an impaired worldview that tells us we are not comptent to function normally.
How Can I Address Such A Broad Issue As Personal Power? The first step is an accurate assessment. Based on years of conceptual development research in the academic setting, as well as outcome studies conducted in clinical practice, Douglas Frans, PhD has developed a comprehensive assessment tool as well as a set of competency-based techniques to address personal power deficits and assist you in reinventing your most important life domains: carrer, relationships, and health. For the first time, the assessment tool used in this groundbreaking research is available to you. Receive your scored Personal Empowerment IQ Test (EIQ) FREE of charge. Click on the following link - you'll receive your score report quickly.

Power deficits are serious obstacles to achieving many of the succesess and satisfactions associated with our important life-functioning areas like our career and relationips. People who live in chronic states of powerlessness almost always have significant health risks as well. If you experience any of these issues with enough regularity that your life is disrupted, this assessment and the accompanying plan to overcome them is indicated for you.
Home Page Six Paths to Personal Power
Douglas Frans, Ph.D.
Once you have taken the EIQ Test you will be able to isolate and attack your own blocks to personal power. The six paths refer to the domains of power common to every individual. However, each of us experiences deficits in different combinations. However, for most of us, the followng goals wiil resonante. These are the skills you will be able to employ by using this system, although you are not limiteed to these objectives alone:
Confront Your Social Anxiety
Empower Your Career and Professional Life
Invigorate Your Relationships with the Power of Attraction
Learn About the Six Domains of Personal Power
Recover Your Self Concept
Become a decisive player in your own life
Conduct a Comprehensive Assessment of Your Personal Power Matrix
Unmask The Myth of Mental Illness By Reclaiming Personal Power

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Myths About Powerful People
Powerlessness is a condition that we all periodically encounter throughout our lives. While the intensity of our experience of disempowerment varies over time, there is little doubt that it is a phenomenon embedded in the very fabric of our lives. When we feel powerful, life seems an unblemished horizon of opportunity. When we experience the vacuum of powerlessness, it can range from a minor annoyance to a crippling deficit resulting in emotional instability, social isolation and poverty. We all know people that seem to exude a sense of esteem and confidence that we associate with personal power and we often make the following erroneous assumptions:
That these ¡°powerful¡± individuals possess uncommon traits and abilities;

Powerful people are naturally endowed with these gifts, have assumed their talents without effort, or been granted power by someone;

That it is unlikely we can ever possess the sort of positive self concept we see these individuals display.
By using the Personal Power Leveraging Model of Self-Empowerment, you will come to understand and believe the following:
The ingredients of personal power are skills, abilities and attitudes that you acquire and internalize. They have been identified through research and can be learned and applied in your life - the only requirement is effort. PERSONAL POWER IS TAKEN, NOT GIVEN!

Some of the questions this program will answer:

What are the traits and attributes associated with personal power?

Why can't I exercise personal power when I want or need it?

What are these power deficits doing to my career, relationships and family life?

How is my health affected by personal powerlessness and what can I do about it?

Is is possible that powerlessness is my problem rather than mental health issues?

Can I actually change my self esteem and confidence levels?

How do I get started to change the circumstances of my life?

Will this program help me get the things in life that I want and need?

How can I bring meaning and purpose back into my life?

What Can My Empowerment Score and Analysis
Tell Me About Myself?
You will be able to have your personal power matrix assessesed and your strengths and weaknesses analyzed in relation to your own life circumstances. The Empowerment IQ Test developed by Dr. Frans was initially validated with over 1000 subjects and has subsequently been used in empowerment studies across the nation. You can now take the version developed specifically for client assessment and treatment- planning employed in clinical settings
Your sense of personal power is mediated within six different domains of human experience. You will learn how well you function within each of these domains relative to other test-takers. Equally important, you will be able to identify where your power deficits are localized and where you need to focus your efforts to make the most immediate impact in your life. Our most valued life areas - RELATIONSHIPS, CAREER LIFE, and HEALTH - are profoundly impacted by the way we perceive ourselves within these power dimensions and the way we act accordingly. You will examine your personal power matrix along the following dimensions:

The Six Critical Domains
Somatic Perception - your relationship to the physical world and your self-image.
Psycho-Spiritual Orientation - your perspective on the larger cosmic forces in life, your belief system and the underlying assumptions & attitudes that govern your existence.
Self-Concept - your unvarnished self appraisal including your relationship with your past and how it affects your current self valuation.
Collective/Social Indentity - the degree to which valued social groups and collectives provide meaning and definition to your life.
Critical Awareness - your ability to monitor events in your environment, interpersonal dynamics and how this awarenss informs your responses .
Efficacy - a combination of knowledge and skills that allow you to effect change in your life and your propensity and ability to act on them.

Using The Power Leveraging System

Once you submit the Empowerment Index questionnaire your scored results are quickly generated and returned. This report provides an analysis of each empowerment subscale and directs you to relevant sections in the manual for expanded information on each of your scored domain areas. The text is divided into a number of sections developing your knowledge and awareness of various power deficits which affect you in addition to providing assistance developing self-interventions to address and change them. The following outline highlights the main topical areas covered in the book:

Table of Contents
Introduction
Power Leveraging and Personal Empowerment
Theoretical Considerations
The Experience of Disempowerment and Powerlessness
Traditional Ideas of Power
Power Leveraging
Applying the Principles of Power Leveraging
The Six Domains of Pers