As part of a larger interview, clients of assertive community treatment programs answered an open-ended question about what they liked least about assertive community treatment. Of 182 clients, 44 percent reported that they disliked nothing; 21 percent said that they disliked features that are considered specific to assertive community treatment, such as home visits, or that have been criticize...

This study aims to produce an individual counselling guide for assertive training techniques in State Senior High Schools Yogyakarta. research is and development using the Borg & Gall model, which was conducted through seven stages: preliminary data collection, planning, initial product development, early-stage trial, revision of field trial revision. Data collection methods used a question...

The Dutch healthcare sector has seen many major changes lately: the introduction of a new health insurance scheme, a shift from supply-based healthcare to a demand-based system and a trend towards increasingly assertive patients. This requires a new approach to the education and training of future doctors. How is this approach implemented in practice and how do the changes affect medical studen...

The present study examined effects of a 3-h stress management program for Japanese hospital staffs that included relaxation and assertion training. Twenty-seven hospital staffs (mean age: 29.4 yr) in a stress management group and 28 hospital staffs (mean age: 29.5 yr) in a wait-list group answered evaluation surveys at both pre- and post-intervention. Self-administered questionnaires including ...

AIM AND BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of web-based assertion training programmes for Japanese hospital nurses based on their assertion knowledge, attitude and behaviour, job stress and depression. Job stress has been reported to be high among Japanese hospital nurses, and it is thought that assertion, one type of communication skill, could help nurses to better...