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Decentering

7 techniques · 4 approaches
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…
ERT
Rumination Interruption
Rumination Interruption
Helping the client recognize rumination as a repetitive negative thinking process and shift from circular analysis of the past to decenterin…
ERT
Worry Defusion
Worry Defusion
Helping the client relate to worry as a mental process about the future, rather than as a demand for immediate control or certainty.
MBCT
Decentering / Cognitive Defusion / Metacognitive Awareness
Decentering / Cognitive Defusion / Metacognitive Awareness
Decentering is the capacity to see thoughts and feelings as transient mental events rather than as facts or definitions of the self. It is n…
MBCT
Sounds and Thoughts Meditation
Sounds and Thoughts Meditation
The participant first listens to sounds — noticing them as sounds, without naming or evaluating — and then moves to thoughts, applying the s…
MBT
Contrary Moves
Contrary Moves
An MBT technique in which the therapist offers an alternative perspective opposite to the one in which the client is "stuck". When the clien…
MCT
Detached Mindfulness (DM)
Detached Mindfulness (DM)
The key stance of MCT — meta-awareness of thoughts without reaction to them. The client notices a thought, recognizes it as a thought (not a…
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