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noun

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.

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Origin of assertiveness training

First recorded in 1970–75

Words nearby assertiveness training

Asser, assert, asserted, assertion, assertive, assertiveness training, assertoric, assertory, asses, assess, assessed value

How to use assertiveness training in a sentence

She completed a yoga teacher-training program and, in the spring of 2008, went on a retreat in Peru to study with shamans.
How Taryn Toomey’s ‘The Class’ Became New York’s Latest Fitness Craze|Lizzie Crocker|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
As part of that effort, Said received weapons training for months, sources told The Daily Beast.
U.S. Spies See Al Qaeda Fingerprints on Paris Massacre|Shane Harris, Nancy A. Youssef|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The training, at least as described by the U.S. military, is incredibly basic.
Pentagon Insider on New Plan to Fight ISIS: ‘Of Course It’s Not Enough’|Nancy A. Youssef|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Training in Taji began Dec. 20; a week later, 218 Iraqis began receiving training in Anbar.
Pentagon Insider on New Plan to Fight ISIS: ‘Of Course It’s Not Enough’|Nancy A. Youssef|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST

After the six-week training, the forces will be deployed to confront the Islamic State, officials said.
Pentagon Insider on New Plan to Fight ISIS: ‘Of Course It’s Not Enough’|Nancy A. Youssef|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Concurrently with it there will be going on, as I have said, a man's special technical training.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
It was a tremendous training in the sifting of evidence and the examination of appearances.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
If schooling is a training in expression and communication, college is essentially the establishment of broad convictions.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Malcolm had selected it as a training-ground that evening, because he meant to weary and subdue his too highly spirited charger.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
It has a training value entirely apart‌ from its practical value in that case.
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)