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National Center for PTSD; STAIR Skills Training in Affective and Interpersonal Regulation

Session 7 – Agency in Relationships

Lesson Key Points > Session Summary

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Collage of client, therapist and assertiveness behavior form

Throughout this lesson you have been introduced to key aspects, techniques and tools for Session Seven of STAIR on Agency in Relationships. Key points to remember are:

  1. The primary goal of Session Seven is to identify current difficulties in appropriate assertiveness and to practice alternative more adaptive behaviors.
  2. There are three types of boundaries in relationships; Holding others at a distance; Fused Boundaries and Healthy Boundaries. 
  3. There are three types of ways people can establish boundaries through assertiveness behaviors: Aggressive behavior; Non-assertive behavior; and Assertive behavior.
  4. "I Messages" help your client communicate situations to help resolve the situations.
  5. The Interpersonal Schemas Worksheet II is used to capture a client's current beliefs as well as identifying alternative, more adaptive schemas.
  6. Responding to requests can be communicated through the use of "I Messages."