Improving your Assertiveness

Assertive behavior is a communication style where we communicate our feelings, thoughts, and beliefs in an open, honest manner without violating the rights of others.

By being assertive we take a stand for ourselves without being passive where one abuses their own rights or aggressive where others rights are abused.

Program Sessions

Session 1: Understanding assertiveness and recognizing assertive behavior

Session 2: Prepare to assert yourself

Session 3: Adopting assertive thinking and behavior

Session 4: Learn to say 'No'

Session 5: Dealing assertively with criticism

Session 6: Learn to deal with disappointments assertively

Session 7: Give and receive compliments assertively

Session 8: Adopting new ways of living

References

• Evaluation of assertiveness training for psychiatric patients — Kuei-Ru Chou, Professor, Director of Graduate Institute of Nursing, Taipei Medical University, No. 250, Wu-Hsing Street, Taipei 110, Taiwan.
• Simple assertiveness and healthy boundaries. In: Essentials of Managing Stress — Seaward BL. Burlington, Mass.: Jones & Bartlett Learning; 2017.
• Responsible, assertive, caring communication in nursing. In: Communication in Nursing. 8th ed — Riley JB. Mosby Elsevier; 2017.
• The effect of assertiveness training in schizophrenic patients on functional remission and assertiveness level — Gonca Ustun PhD, Leyla Kucuk.