ASSERTIVENESS TRAINING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does assertiveness training mean? 

• ASSERTIVENESS TRAINING (noun)
  The noun ASSERTIVENESS TRAINING has 1 sense:

1. a method of psychotherapy that reinforces you for stating negative and positive feelings directly

  Familiarity information: ASSERTIVENESS TRAINING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASSERTIVENESS TRAINING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A method of psychotherapy that reinforces you for stating negative and positive feelings directly

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("assertiveness training" is a kind of...):

behavior modification; behavior therapy (psychotherapy that seeks to extinguish or inhibit abnormal or maladaptive behavior by reinforcing desired behavior and extinguishing undesired behavior)