Assertiveness training
a type of behavior therapy in which people are taught appropriate methods of asserting themselves in various situations through honest and direct expression of both positive and negative feelings.
Historical Examples
Anxiety is offset by means of desensitization, assertiveness training, and sex therapy.
When You Don’t Know Where to Turn Steven J. Bartlett
Dr. Cantwell decided to use a combination of desensitization and assertiveness training with Anne.
When You Don’t Know Where to Turn Steven J. Bartlett
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adjective (logic) (of a statement) stating a fact, as opposed to expressing an evaluative judgment (obsolete) judging what is rather than what may or must be Historical Examples The expression of actuality in the assertoric judgment involves no adverbial modification of the predicate. A Commentary to Kant’s ‘Critique of Pure Reason’ Norman Kemp Smith
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