Creating treatment that is easier to access, with more frequent contacts, assertive outreach to clients between appointments, and an explicit youth-oriented culture could make services more attractive to those most in need of care.
Exclusion criteria included: 1) being a current client of an assertive community treatment (ACT) or intensive case management program (ICM); and 2) lack of legal residence status in Canada.
Dealing with an assertive can be good for the client.
(He says that, as a psychologist, he has often counselled female clients to be more assertive at work).
By the same token, if clients began seeking out assertive lawyers who were not aggressive, the supply of such lawyers would increase and everyone would benefit, except for the destructive lawyers".
In contrast, a US study [ 30] showed that 46 DD clients treated by staff who had received training in delivering assertive integrated treatment were significantly more satisfied than 49 clients treated in general non-assertive addiction or mental health programmes.
Clients in this fourth treatment group reported significantly greater satisfaction at three and 15 months after intake than clients in the other two assertive treatment programmes and the control condition (p < 0.001, see Table 2 and Additional File 2).
Finally, let's recall Marie Kondo's bestselling business of tidying up Japanese way: instead of criticizing clients world-wide, she advises like an assertive and constructive pro about getting rid of waste.
(patient 18) She was very good, assertive with the GPs, but very gentle with the clients I thought.
Here, a new assertive integrated treatment condition was added, in which 79 clients were provided with extra addiction-focused services aiming to achieve higher treatment fidelity.
