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Muchowski, Patrice M.; Valle, Stephen K. – Journal of Marriage and Family Counseling, 1977
The efficacy of training as a mode of treatment has been tried in many settings with a variety of populations. This study utilizes assertive training as a mode of treatment. Results indicate assertive training as having both positive and negative effects as perceived by trainees and their spouses. (Author)
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Helping Relationship, Interaction Process Analysis, Interpersonal Relationship
Peer reviewedFarley, Roy C.; Akridge, Robert L. – Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin, 1987
Examined effects of training in relationship skills for rehabilitation clients. Training was found to be effective in teaching basic concepts about interpersonal styles and in teaching participants how to communicate understanding and behave assertively in simulated career situations, and partially successful in an actual career preparation…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Career Exploration, Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Relationship
Peer reviewedCollins, Belva C.; Hall, Meada; Rankin, Stephanie Wheatley; Branson, Terri A. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 1999
Describes a systematic program conducted at a rural secondary school to teach students with moderate mental retardation ways to resist peer pressure. Peers without disabilities were used to identify common situations of peer pressure and to serve as confederates in setting up situations where students with mental retardation learned to "just say…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Counseling Techniques, Interpersonal Competence, Interpersonal Relationship
Khemka, Ishita – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 2000
The effectiveness of two decision-making training approaches in increasing independent decision-making skills of 36 women with mild mental retardation responding to hypothetical social interpersonal situations involving abuse was evaluated. The approaches addressed either cognitive and emotional aspects or only cognitive aspects of…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Battered Women, Decision Making, Females
