@article{ref1,
title="Assertive/leveling communication and empathy in adolescent drug abuse prevention",
journal="Journal of Primary Prevention",
year="1986",
author="Englander-Golden, P. and Elconin, J. and Satir, V.",
volume="6",
number="4",
pages="231-243",
abstract="This paper presents the feelings reported by 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th graders when role playing situations in which they wanted to say &quot;no&quot; to alcohol/drugs or to talk to a friend who was &quot;using.&quot; These role plays were part of SAY IT STRAIGHT (SIS) training, which was described in the preceding paper. Youngsters described themselves as feeling good and having high self-respect/esteem only when they said &quot;no&quot; in an assertive/leveling way. Only youngsters toward whom an assertive/leveling &quot;no&quot; was addressed described themselves as surprised/shocked and respectful of the person who was saying &quot;no.&quot; Finally, youngsters reported that the most effective way to convince a friend to quit &quot;using&quot; and/or get help was to express caring and friendship, and to touch the friend rather than being aggressive/blaming, irrelevant or super-reasonable. This feedback from youngsters opens conceptual issues relevant to some assertiveness training and drug abuse prevention programs.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0278-095X",
doi="10.1007/BF01330264",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01330264"
}