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Cognition

21 techniques · 9 approaches
AEDP
Soft Bypass of Defenses
Soft Bypass of Defenses
Instead of confronting defenses (as in ISTDP) — creating such safety and contact that defenses become unnecessary and dissolve on their own.
Bioenergetics
Lying Down Integration
Lying Down Integration
A closing practice: the client lies on the back, breathes freely, feels the back's contact with the floor. Integration of the bodily and emo…
CBASP
Causal Theory Closure Revision
Causal Theory Closure Revision
Helping the client revise the deep conclusions about self and world based on past experience. Not "replacing negative thoughts" but updating…
CBASP
Generalization Training
Generalization Training
Helping the client transfer SA skills from therapy into everyday life. "I don't need a therapist to see the link — I can do it myself."
CBASP
Preoperational to Formal Operations Shift
Preoperational to Formal Operations Shift
Helping the client move from preoperational thinking (global attributions, egocentrism, disconnection) toward formal operational thinking (c…
CBASP
Successful Situation Analysis
Successful Situation Analysis
A Situational Analysis of a situation where AO = DO. Helping the client see: when they acted differently — the outcome was different. "My ac…
Coherence
Overt Statement by Therapist
Overt Statement by Therapist
The therapist voices the presumed emotional knowledge of the client in the first person — the client checks whether it resonates and correct…
Coherence
Root Memory Access
Root Memory Access
Finding the concrete experience in which the emotional knowledge behind the symptom was formed — through the affect bridge or direct inquiry…
Coherence
Transformation Verification
Transformation Verification
Checking the markers of transformational change: absence of effort, puzzlement, no return of the symptom, a sense of obviousness of the new …
Coherence
Working with Multiple Emotional Learnings
Working with Multiple Emotional Learnings
Exploring the situation in which several emotional learnings stand behind one symptom — each requiring its own cycle of discovery and recons…
ERT
Decentering Practice
Decentering Practice
Developing a metacognitive position: observing thoughts and emotions from the side without merging with them. The client learns to say, 'I a…
Gottman
Positive Sentiment Override
Positive Sentiment Override
Work on having neutral and ambiguous actions of the partner interpreted positively rather than negatively.
Hakomi
Accessing Core Material
Accessing Core Material
Gently leading to the deep beliefs through mindfulness, tracking, and probes. Core material is the set of beliefs that organize the whole of…
Hakomi
Character Strategy Exploration
Character Strategy Exploration
A joint exploration of the habitual way of organizing experience: how the client automatically structures their world, what they notice, wha…
Hakomi
Mindful Self-Study
Mindful Self-Study
A practice for the client between sessions: deliberate slowing down and observing one's reactions in everyday situations. Transferring the m…
Hakomi
Mindfulness Invitation
Mindfulness Invitation
Helping the client move out of ordinary conversation into a state of mindful inner observation. The key transition of a Hakomi session.
Sandplay
Post-Creation Dialogue
Post-Creation Dialogue
Gentle inquiry into the created world through open questions. Not interpretation, but an invitation for the client to speak about what they …
WBT
Autonomy Building
Autonomy Building
Strengthening the autonomy dimension: moving from dependence on others' opinions toward an internal locus of control through the practice of…
WBT
Environmental Mastery Enhancement
Environmental Mastery Enhancement
Strengthening the sense of control over daily life through small steps of organizing the environment, planning, and achieving concrete resul…
WBT
Personal Growth Activation
Personal Growth Activation
Work on the personal-growth dimension: stepping out of stagnation through new experience, learning, and gentle challenge to the comfort zone…
WBT
Well-Being Interruption Analysis
Well-Being Interruption Analysis
Cognitive work with the automatic thoughts that cut off positive experience: identification, classification by Ryff dimension, and restructu…
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