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Acceptance

32 techniques · 13 approaches
ACT
Expansion / Opening Up
Expansion / Opening Up
A core ACT acceptance technique. The client learns to create space around an unpleasant bodily sensation: noticing it, allowing it to be the…
ACT
RAIN Technique
RAIN Technique (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Non-identification)
A four-step protocol for accepting difficult emotions: Recognize, Allow, Investigate and Non-identification. Developed in mindfulness contex…
ACT
Tug of War with the Monster
Tug of War with the Monster
A key Hayes metaphor for the paradox of struggle. On one side of the rope is the client; on the other is the monster: anxiety, pain, depress…
ACT
Two Dials
Two Dials
A metaphor for separating discomfort from willingness. One dial shows the intensity of pain, fear or anxiety; the other shows willingness to…
ACT
Willingness Scale
Willingness Scale
A simple tool for assessing the client's willingness to experience uncomfortable sensations, thoughts or feelings in the service of values. …
DBT
Dialectical Strategies
Dialectical Strategies
The core of DBT: dialectics means that opposites can be true at the same time. The client is ill AND can change. Their pain is real AND life…
DBT
Radical Acceptance
Radical Acceptance
Full acknowledgment and the end of the fight with what cannot be changed: the past, a loss, others' actions, uncontrollable circumstances. I…
DBT
Validation (Levels 1–6)
Validation (Levels 1–6)
Six levels of validation — from basic listening to radical genuineness. Validation is the "wing of acceptance" in DBT. Without it, change st…
EFT for Couples
Working with Fear of Closeness
Working with Fear of Closeness
Inquiry into the fears that prevent accepting closeness: "If I show vulnerability — I will be hurt. If I let in — I will lose myself." Norma…
Focusing
Inner Relationship Focusing
Inner Relationship Focusing
A development of the method by Ann Weiser Cornell and Barbara McGavin: radical acceptance of all inner parts, including the critic. Instead …
Focusing
Keeping Company
Keeping Company
The therapist "keeps company" with what the client is experiencing — without trying to change, fix, improve. That alone is a powerful therap…
Frankl
Modification of Attitudes
Modification of Attitudes
A technique for changing the inner attitude toward an unchangeable situation. Logotherapy first changes the relationship to the circumstance…
Gestalt
Paradoxical Theory of Change
Paradoxical Theory of Change
Arnold Beisser's theory: change happens not through the fight with the problem, but through full acceptance of what is. "Change happens when…
Gottman
Perpetual Problem Dialogue
Perpetual Problem Dialogue
A structured conversation about a chronic couple problem with the aim not of solving it but of maintaining an open dialogue with humor and a…
IBCT
Acceptance Letter
Acceptance Letter
Each partner writes a letter describing what they accept in the other — including what they used to want to change. The letters are read in …
IBCT
Positive Aspects of Negative Behavior
Positive Aspects of Negative Behavior
Helping the couple see that the partner's "problematic" trait also has a positive side. His silence is not indifference, but caution. Her in…
MBCT
Allowing/Letting Be Meditation / Turning Toward Difficulty
Allowing/Letting Be Meditation / Turning Toward Difficulty
The participant deliberately recalls a difficult situation and directs attention to the body sensations linked to it, applying the stance of…
MBCT
Doing Mode vs Being Mode
Doing Mode vs Being Mode
A psychoeducational model with practical application: "doing mode" is aimed at reaching a goal and removing the gap between "how it is" and …
MBSR
Seven Attitudinal Foundations of Mindfulness
Seven Attitudinal Foundations of Mindfulness
Kabat-Zinn formulated 7 attitudes as the foundation of any MBSR practice: non-judging, patience, beginner's mind, trust, non-striving, accep…
Morita
Arugamama Practice
Arugamama Practice
Accepting feelings as they are, without fighting or trying to change them. "I feel anxious — and that is fine. What can I do right now?"
Morita
Attention Redirection
Attention Redirection
Shifting the focus of attention from symptoms onto purposeful action. Breaking the vicious cycle: attention to symptom → amplification → eve…
Morita
Bed Rest Phase
Bed Rest Phase
A period of maximum reduction in activity: minimum stimulation, meeting oneself without escape. Classic inpatient or outpatient adaptation.
Morita
Constructive Living
Constructive Living
Integration of Morita principles into everyday life: focus on actions, acceptance of feelings, gratitude toward the world. Adaptation by Dav…
Morita
Desire for Life (Sei-no-Yokubo) Work
Desire for Life (Sei-no-Yokubo) Work
Uncovering and supporting the fundamental striving toward life — sei-no-yokubo. Perfectionism and anxiety are not enemies but distorted form…
Morita
Gradual Activity Expansion
Gradual Activity Expansion
A step-by-step increase in the volume and complexity of activity: from light work to full life. Each step — in spite of feelings, not waitin…
Morita
Morita Diary
Morita Diary
A daily record: actions, feelings, observations of nature. The central tool — helps the client see the relation between actions and feelings…
Morita
Nature Contact
Nature Contact
Deliberate attention to nature: weather, trees, sky, sounds. Expanding attention beyond one's own symptoms. The therapeutic role of nature i…
Morita
Purposeful Action
Purposeful Action
Action grounded in necessity and values rather than in mood. "Do what is needed — regardless of what you feel".
Morita
Vicious Cycle Analysis
Vicious Cycle Analysis
Helping the client see the mechanism of toraware: how fixation on a symptom strengthens the symptom, creating a self-sustaining cycle of suf…
UP
Mindful Emotion Awareness
Mindful Emotion Awareness
Practicing nonjudgmental awareness of emotional experience, including thoughts, sensations, and urges, without immediately changing or avoid…
Yalom
Attitude Modulation
Attitude Modulation
When an event is unchangeable — illness, loss, the death of a loved one, disability — the work is aimed at changing the attitude toward it. …
Yalom
Confronting Limit Situations (Jaspers)
Confronting Limit Situations (Jaspers)
A meeting with limit situations — death, suffering, guilt, struggle — which cannot be overcome or corrected. Jaspers shows that precisely in…
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