Participants' accounts highlight a number of mechanisms by which this can be achieved including building positive therapeutic relationships with staff, use of assertive engagement techniques, honest and overt discussions about treatment and providing advice and encouragement.
Key features of ACT are: assertive engagement, a small caseload (maximum of 10 patients per clinician); shared caseload (i.e. all clinicians collaborated closely on each patient using one treatment plan); and community-based and assertive services on a time-unlimited basis [ 5, 19].
The Social Democrats, Mr. Steinmeier included, are known for their more Russia-friendly stance, arguing strenuously for engagement with the increasingly assertive power to the east, rather than its isolation.
In post-1945 Europe Germans were always supporters of engagement with Russia, but a newly assertive Germany has come to see Russia as a threat.
The president-elect, Roh Moo Hyun, who emerged victorious last week in part on the strength of these sentiments, is an ardent advocate of engagement with North Korea, and has vowed to be assertive in dealing with the United States, which he has openly called heavy-handed.
Still, obstacles persist to a more assertive Russian expansion in Venezuela beyond the sphere of weapons sales and political engagement with Mr. Ch z's allies.
In any event, Mrs. Merkel's engagement with the euro crisis is seen as essential to its resolution, and her more assertive tone should also better equip her for a series of different electoral tests in Germany this year.
Engagement with followers.
And they repay such engagement with loyalty.
His engagement with ideas seems limitless.
It's engagement with people.
