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Boundaries

28 techniques · 4 approaches
CBT
Assertiveness Training (DEAR MAN)
Assertiveness Training (DEAR MAN)
Training in healthy communication: expressing needs, saying no and protecting boundaries without aggression or passivity. DEAR MAN includes …
DBT
DEAR MAN (Describe, Express, Assert, Reinforce, Mindful, Appear confident, Negotiate)
DEAR MAN (Describe, Express, Assert, Reinforce, Mindful, Appear confident, Negotiate)
A seven-step skill for effectively asserting your needs and getting the desired result. The focus is on the goal: when the result matters mo…
DBT
FAST (Fair, Apologies, Stick to values, Truthful)
FAST (Fair, Apologies, Stick to values, Truthful)
A four-step skill for keeping self-respect in interpersonal situations. The focus is on the self: when self-respect matters more than the re…
Gestalt
Rehearsal Technique
Rehearsal Technique
In session, the client plays through an upcoming event — a difficult conversation, negotiations, a conflict meeting. The therapist becomes t…
Gestalt
Retroflection Work
Retroflection Work
Retroflection is action turned upon the self instead of upon the world. I do not say "I am angry" — I bite my tongue. I do not ask "help me"…
Gestalt
Reversal Technique
Reversal Technique
The client becomes the opposite of their habitual pattern: timid → aggressive, dependent → independent, the eternal giver → the taker. Throu…
Structural
Accommodation
Accommodation
Accommodation: A structural-family intervention for making boundaries, hierarchy, coalitions, and live interaction patterns visible and chan…
Structural
Boundary Making
Boundary Making
Boundary Making: A structural-family intervention for making boundaries, hierarchy, coalitions, and live interaction patterns visible and ch…
Structural
Challenging the Family Structure
Challenging the Family Structure
Challenging the Family Structure: A structural-family intervention for making boundaries, hierarchy, coalitions, and live interaction patter…
Structural
Complementarity Work
Complementarity Work
Complementarity Work: A structural-family intervention for making boundaries, hierarchy, coalitions, and live interaction patterns visible a…
Structural
Detriangling
Detriangling
Detriangling: A structural-family intervention for making boundaries, hierarchy, coalitions, and live interaction patterns visible and chang…
Structural
Enactment
Enactment
Enactment: A structural-family intervention for making boundaries, hierarchy, coalitions, and live interaction patterns visible and changeab…
Structural
Focusing
Focusing
Focusing: A structural-family intervention for making boundaries, hierarchy, coalitions, and live interaction patterns visible and changeabl…
Structural
Hierarchy Restoration
Hierarchy Restoration
Hierarchy Restoration: A structural-family intervention for making boundaries, hierarchy, coalitions, and live interaction patterns visible …
Structural
Intensity
Intensity
Intensity: A structural-family intervention for making boundaries, hierarchy, coalitions, and live interaction patterns visible and changeab…
Structural
Joining
Joining
Joining: A structural-family intervention for making boundaries, hierarchy, coalitions, and live interaction patterns visible and changeable…
Structural
Mimesis
Mimesis
Mimesis: A structural-family intervention for making boundaries, hierarchy, coalitions, and live interaction patterns visible and changeable…
Structural
Observation of Spontaneous Sequences
Observation of Spontaneous Sequences
Observation of Spontaneous Sequences: A structural-family intervention for making boundaries, hierarchy, coalitions, and live interaction pa…
Structural
Paradoxical Intervention
Paradoxical Intervention
Paradoxical Intervention: A structural-family intervention for making boundaries, hierarchy, coalitions, and live interaction patterns visib…
Structural
Redirection
Redirection
Redirection: A structural-family intervention for making boundaries, hierarchy, coalitions, and live interaction patterns visible and change…
Structural
Reframing
Reframing
Reframing: A structural-family intervention for making boundaries, hierarchy, coalitions, and live interaction patterns visible and changeab…
Structural
Shaping Competence
Shaping Competence
Shaping Competence: A structural-family intervention for making boundaries, hierarchy, coalitions, and live interaction patterns visible and…
Structural
Spatial Rearrangement
Spatial Rearrangement
Spatial Rearrangement: A structural-family intervention for making boundaries, hierarchy, coalitions, and live interaction patterns visible …
Structural
Structural Mapping
Structural Mapping
Structural Mapping: A structural-family intervention for making boundaries, hierarchy, coalitions, and live interaction patterns visible and…
Structural
Subsystem Work
Subsystem Work
Subsystem Work: A structural-family intervention for making boundaries, hierarchy, coalitions, and live interaction patterns visible and cha…
Structural
Task Assignment
Task Assignment
Task Assignment: A structural-family intervention for making boundaries, hierarchy, coalitions, and live interaction patterns visible and ch…
Structural
Tracking
Tracking
Tracking: A structural-family intervention for making boundaries, hierarchy, coalitions, and live interaction patterns visible and changeabl…
Structural
Unbalancing
Unbalancing
Unbalancing: A structural-family intervention for making boundaries, hierarchy, coalitions, and live interaction patterns visible and change…
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