This study aimed to preliminarily examine the efficacy of a functional assertiveness training program incorporating acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) in a pilot study involving individuals ...

Wright said. It may be, she added, that weekly therapy sessions are simply not scalable to a broad population, and the field should explore light-touch alternatives, like single-session ...

to avoid clear assertiveness, people engage in indirect communication, specifically something that radically open dialectical behavioral therapy calls 'disguised demands' (Lynch, 2018).