DEAR MAN: A Dialectical Behavior Therapy skill for building interpersonal effectiveness

Have you ever felt angry, hurt, upset, sad, disappointed because you didn’t get something you wanted or needed, but also you never asked?

If you don’t speak up for your wants and needs, you can’t expect that people are going to meet them reliably. Because people aren’t mind readers.

Most of the time, when you speak up in a skillful way, you can fulfill your needs and wants.

Using the acronym DEAR MAN, you can help your clients learn how to speak their needs.

This is perfect for...

...The client who has trouble saying “NO” all the time...

...The one who lets their friends and family members walk all over them...

Let me show you step-by-step how to use this Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skill in this short video.




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