What Is Interpersonal Effectiveness

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Mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and dialectical thinking are for self-regulation.
Interpersonal effectiveness is about learning to deal with other people.
Interpersonal effectiveness skills include all of the other skills
Interpersonal effectiveness is meeting your wants and needs while balancing acceptance and change within relationships.
This balance includes skills that make healthy relationships stronger, and terminate unhealthy ones.
Interpersonal effectiveness is the middle path between independence and dependence
Assertiveness refers to the middle path between too passive and too aggressive.
Too passive, too aggressive, and passive-aggressive are all ineffective because they require a loser in order to work.
The most effective approach is to be assertive