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Definition of Assertiveness training
1. Noun. A method of psychotherapy that reinforces you for stating negative and positive feelings directly.
Literary usage of Assertiveness training
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Schools and Drugs: A Guide to Drug and Alcohol Abuse Prevention Curricula (1991)
"In the last decade, assertiveness training has been recognized in many prevention
and intervention programs as an essential communication skill for building ..."
2. Getting Off the Hook: Treatment of Drug Addiction and Social Disorders by Jurriaan Plesman (1986)
"The assertiveness training course, as presented in this book, explains some of
the basic philosophical attitudes of assertive people that makes them ..."
3. Treatment Services for Adolescent Substance Abusers by Alfred S. Friedman (1998)
"Group methods alone include such variants as rap groups, reality groups, sensitivity
groups, assertiveness training, consciousness raising, encounter and ..."
4. Drug Abuse Prevention What Works by Karol L. Kumpeer (1998)
"If every student in a school is given assertiveness training, ... If specific
students are given the assertiveness training because they are experiencing ..."
5. Value of Psychiatric Treatment: Its Efficacy in Severe Mental Disorders edited by Samuel J. Keith (1996)
"In these cases, procedures designed to decrease those drive states, such as
assertiveness training, can be useful. In assertiveness training, the patient is ..."
6. Criminal Justice & Community Response to Rape by Joel Epstein (1995)
"RAAP also offers self-defense programs, which cover resisting attacks, home
safety, assertiveness training, and psychological preparedness. ..."
7. Inspector General Act Oversight: Hearings Before the Committee on Government edited by Stephen Horn (1999)
"I'm even willing to throw in assertiveness training, should anybody be too shy,
or politeness if they're too aggressive. Civility should not be a lost cause ..."
8. Assessing Alcohol Problems: A Guide for Clinicians and Researchers by John P. Allen, Megan Columbus (1997)
"... skill levels associated with treatment, and the efficacy of specific treatment
components (eg, assertiveness training, relapse coping, problem solving). ..."
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