DEAR Adult: Advocate, Appreciate, Apologize

United States Department of Homeland Security

Interpersonal effectiveness consists of: advocate, appreciate, and apologize. A healthy relationship requires all three.
DEAR Adult is a technique that facilitates balance in relationships by fortifying each of the three elements.
The DEAR part of the skill is a four-step acronym that provides an outline for how to advocate, appreciate, or apologize
The purpose of the DEAR acronym is to advocate, appreciate and apologize.
The key to describing is to state the facts.
The key to expressing is to use “I feel”
The key to the adult voice is to use coping skills to stay calm and collected.
The adult voice is the middle path between the parent voice and the child voice.
The DEAR structure only works with the right delivery.