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ASSERTIVENESS
Assertion Training - Some Definitions
1. Assertion/assertiveness involves
| a. | Standing up for one's personal rights. |
| b. | Being able to express thoughts, feelings, and beliefs in direct honest and appropriate ways. |
| c. | Not violating another person's rights in the process. |
2. Non-assertion / non-assertiveness involves
| a. | Violating or denying one's own personal rights. |
| b. | Failing to express thoughts, feelings, and beliefs in direct, honest ways. |
| c. | Or expressing thoughts, feelings, and beliefs in such an apologetic, self-effacing manner that others can easily disregard them. |
3. Aggression involves
| a. | Directly standing up for one's own personal rights. |
| b. | Expressing thoughts, feelings, and beliefs in a way which is usually indirect, dishonest or inappropriate. |
| c. | And in a way which violates the personal rights of another person in the process |
