The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Anxiety

Advanced Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills 209

Exercise: Developing Your Own Assertiveness Scripts

Now it’s time to practice developing your own scripts. Start with identifying three situations in
which something feels wrong and you want things to change. Write the information down in the
space provided.

proBleM #1

1. The problem:

2. What I want changed:

proBleM #2

1. The problem:

2. What I want changed:

proBleM #3

1. The problem:

2. What I want changed: