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Module 16/Trainer's Tools
Trainer's Tool 3.1: List of Statements to Practice Assertiveness
"If you don’t run away with me now, I’m going to think you don’t love me."
"There’s nothing wrong with spending the night together."
"I’ll leave you if you don’t sleep with me."
"If you were really as macho as you say you are, you’d take a girl to bed."
"Try some drugs; they won’t hurt you."
"Don’t worry. Even though we’re not using a condom, nothing will happen."
"I’ll give you this money if you do what I say."
"Didn’t you hear what I said Virginity produces cancer.”
"If all the other girls do it [coitus], I don’t know why you don’t."
Source: Vereau, D. 1998. Improving interpersonal communications skills for counseling adolescents on
sexual reproductive health. Lima, Peru: Pathfinder International.
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