Passive Aggressive Diaries
Understanding passive aggressive behavior in families, schools, and workplaces
Signe Whitson L.S.W., C-SSWS
Responding effectively to passive-aggressive behavior in a relationship requires the ability to acknowledge and own the feelings of anger that the behavior creates.
Is there a passive aggressive person in your life? Recognize the warning signs before you act out their anger for them.
Is there a passive-aggressive person in your life? Learn how to stop the endless arguments and frustrating wars of words.
Is there a passive-aggressive person in your life? Learn how to recognize the behavior and adjust your response.
With the threat of a pandemic, what can parents do to help kids cope with COVID-19, school closings, event cancellations, and the climate of fear?
Do social skill deficits cause your children to bicker endlessly? Learn how to build mutual understanding and improve their relationships.
Do you have a child who misreads social cues and struggles to get along with others? This four-step framework can help give them the skills they need.
Have you ever had one of those moments where your child's view of a situation is so different from yours that you wonder if you are even talking about the same thing?
The first skill to effectively manage passive aggressive communication is to see beyond the sugarcoated phrasing and recognize the hostility beneath.
The hidden hostility of passive aggressive behavior can make this style of anger expression the perfect office crime.
Does your child take anger from school and life out on you at home? The LSCI approach can help turn around this self-defeating pattern of interaction.
The LSCI Conflict Cycle explains the circular dynamics of conflict between parents and children and offers insights about de-escalating problems.
If building positive relationships between adults and kids is so fundamentally simple, why do so many young people feel alienated, isolated, and alone?
Taking public jabs at others while avoiding personal confrontation is a hallmark of passive aggressive behavior. Social media can make it all go viral.
It's no coincidence that National Bullying Prevention month is scheduled for the time of year when school-aged kids have sized each other up and calculated their social power.
Savvy professionals use these skills to defuse the hostility of passive-aggressive communication in the workplace.
Do you live or work with a young person who experiences fears, worries, repetitive thoughts, or other signs of anxiety?
Taking online jabs at others while avoiding personal confrontation is a hallmark of passive aggressive behavior.
Passive aggression carried out online has the potential to wound its victims endlessly, as photos, posts, and innuendo remain on the internet indefinitely.
Good news: On-the-spot strategies to bring an end to bullying are highly effective. More good news: if the first opportunity is missed, you still have time to help.
Do you know a student who copes with feelings of inadequacy by employing passive-aggressive behaviors?
10 practical ways that educators, counselors, caring adults, and parents can build social and emotional competence in the kids with whom they work and live.
Is there a passive-aggressive person in your workplace? Here's how to tell.
To change the culture of bullying in our schools, we must move beyond the rote punishments and move toward skill-building.
Are the skills of kindness and empathy any match for aggression and bullying?
Avoid being an unwitting victim of your child’s destructive way of engaging you by recognizing passive aggression on the spot.
What happens when parents teach their children to say “yes” to the presence of anger and “no” to the expression of anger through aggressive or passive-aggressive behaviors?
It's no coincidence that National Bullying Prevention month falls at the time of year when kids have sized each other up and staked out their new place in the peer pecking order.
"Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry."
What can you do to teach young people the skills they need to make healthy friendships and connect with positive peers?
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