This workbook discusses assertive skills training. It provides scenarios and questions to help the reader understand and practice assertive behaviors. The goal is to help readers rehearse assertive responses to probable situations they may encounter in real life through visualization and role playing. Assertiveness involves being honest and direct about one's feelings, needs and beliefs while also respecting others.

1. WORK
BOOK
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2. “You are required to thoroughly understand three
different behaviours discussed in this workshop.
Visualize various situations and respond accordingly.
This workbook will help you to rehearse probable
situations which you may come across in your real
life.”
All the best
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3. Write TRUE or FALSE for the following statements:
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Assertiveness is factual descriptions instead of judgments.
Use of “YOU” not “I” is an assertive behavior.
Making instant decisions is an assertive behavior.
To develop assertiveness you needs to be honest and direct
about your feeling, needs, beliefs.
Avoidance of exaggerations is an assertive behavior.
In assertive approach you don’t need to express yourself firmly
and directly to specific individuals.
Recognizing and respecting the rights of those around you is an
aggressive approach.
Allowing others to impose their valuable thoughts and ideas is
an assertive approach.
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4. Match the following Behaviors:
Aggressive Behavior
Passive Behavior
Assertive Behavior
Passive Aggressive
Behavior
“You are fifteen minutes
late today. That’s the
third time this week.”
“You always interrupt my
work.”
“I love your silence, it
hides your foolishness.”
“Ok, please don’t fight I
will bear these losses.”
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5. Understanding of Concept:
• Write three major benefits
of Assertiveness?
• Name four different types
of Behavior discussed in
this workshop?
• Name six components of
Assertive Behavior?
• Define Assertiveness?
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6. What will be your Assertive Response in following situations:
• A friend offers you a drink or a smoke and you don’t want it.
• It’s Friday afternoon, last session of the day, and some of your friends plan to
skip and hang out off school. They ask you to go with them, but you know if
you miss this class you will get in a lot of trouble.
• To make best use of your spare time you want to do a part-time job, but your
parents don’t allow you for this.
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7. Write aggressive/ passive/ assertive response for following
situation as per your understanding:
• Ankush & Shobhit have been having a conflict over a video game that Ankush
gave it to Shobhit yesterday. Shobhit lost it while he was on the way to his
home. Ankush wants his video game back.
Aggressive
Passive
Assertive
• How Assertive behavior can help them solve the problem?
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8. Write aggressive/ passive/ assertive response for following
situation as per your understanding:
• Another student lay blame on you of stealing his watch. You have been
asked to meet with the principal and the other student in principal’s office. You
run into the other student an hour before the meeting. You are confident you
did not steal the watch.
Aggressive
Passive
Assertive
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9. Tick the correct behavior:
• I don’t want to hear your
views on…..
• Would you tell me more
about how you see the
situation…
• What does the situation look
like from your perspective…
• “That’s OK, I don’t want your
support anyway”
Aggressive
Passive
Assertive
Passive Aggressive
Aggressive
Passive
Assertive
Passive Aggressive
Aggressive
Passive
Assertive
Passive Aggressive
Aggressive
Passive
Assertive
Passive Aggressive
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10. Self Analysis
• Identify a conflict situation where you have answered with aggressive or
Passive behavior. Design an assertive behavior to solve the situation.
• Describe a situation you want to change with an assertive approach after
attending this workshop?
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