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What is Assertiveness Training
Assertiveness training is a form of therapy that has been used since the 1970s to help people learn how to better communicate their needs and wants so that they don’t feel taken advantage of or used. Assertiveness training can be very helpful to people who learned to be passive or passive aggressive due to the circumstances that they grew up in.
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What Does Assertiveness Training Encourage?
Assertiveness training teaches more than just how to be assertive. Assertiveness training teaches people how to handle tense situations without being confrontational but also without giving up their personal autonomy.
When people know that their needs matter and that they have the rig...
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Assertive Behavior Vs Assertive Personality
There is a big difference between assertive behavior and an assertive personality. Assertive behavior that is also respectful while still allowing a person to make their own needs and wants known is healthy.
An assertive personality means that someone is prone to a communication style that ...
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What Will The Assertive Communication Training Teach You?
Assertiveness training will teach you the following assertive behaviours:
- Saying no to demands and requests
- Setting boundaries and sticking with them/being firm
- Talking about things that bother you or addressing problems
- Asking others for help, favours, reques...
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Who Came Up with Assertiveness Training?
Assertiveness training was originally developed as an offshoot of the women’s movement of the 1970s and it was designed to help women learn to stand up for themselves in situations where typically they hadn’t in the past like in the workplace or in higher education settings.
Today both wome...
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Logotherapy may improve resilience—or the ability to withstand adversity, stress, and hardship. This may be due to the skills that this form of therapy encourages people to develop, like:
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What is not up to us?
Well, everything else. The weather, the economy, circumstances, other people’s emotions or judgments, disasters.
We always wish we would never struggle, we do our best to avoid trouble. What great people do is the opposite. They are their best in these situations. They turn persona...
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