DBT Skills - How To Be Assertive: Assertive Communication & DBT Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills

Learn how to be assertive with the DEAR MAN assertive communication and objectives effectiveness technique, one of the DBT interpersonal effectiveness skills. Free DBT Self-Help Course at shtoons.com/dbt and if you'd like to support my channel, please see links below 👇 ❤️ Join my channel with the JOIN button next to SUBSCRIBE ☕ Buy Me A Coffee https://ko-fi.com/selfhelptoons 💚 PayPal https://paypal.me/selfhelptoons 🙏 Become A Patron https://www.patreon.com/SelfHelpToons 👉 TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@selfhelptoons 👉 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/selfhelptoons/ 👉 Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/selfhelptoons.bsky.social 0:00 Intro 2:19 DEAR method 2:28 Describe 3:01 Express 4:08 Assert 4:39 Saying No 5:13 Reinforce 5:29 DEAR Summary 6:34 MAN method 6:43 Mindful of objectives 6:55 Broken-record technique 8:03 Appear confident 8:34 Negotiate 9:27 Summary 10:40 Assertiveness Myths 11:36 Personal Bill of Rights Assertiveness Myths from "DBT Skills Training Handouts and Worksheets" by Marsha M. Linehan Personal Bill of Rights from "The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook" by Edmund J. Bourne Cartoon People by VectorToons (https://vectortoons.com/) CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0), via Wikimedia Commons ㅤ About the Creator: Created by a Registered Psychotherapist with a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology and over 25 years of experience in child, adolescent and adult mental health. These videos make evidence-based, empirically supported psychological concepts accessible through animation.