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Behavioral Rehearsal

Behavioral Rehearsal

Practicing new behavior in session before applying it in life. After the remediation phase of SA — "let's try out how this would look".

CBASP Relapse Prevention

CBASP Relapse Prevention

Preparing for the end of therapy: updated stamps, mastered SA skills, a plan in case of worsening. Chronic depression can return — the clien…

Disciplined Personal Involvement

Disciplined Personal Involvement

The therapist disciplinedly uses their authentic reactions as an instrument: showing the client how their behavior affects another person.

Hotspot Identification

Hotspot Identification

Identifying the situations in which the stamps activate most strongly — the "hotspots". Knowing them, the client can prepare in advance.

The therapist describes to the client the concrete effect their behavior has on the therapist. The goal is to help the client see: "My actio…

Interpersonal Discrimination Exercise

Interpersonal Discrimination Exercise

Helping the client discriminate the therapist (and other people in the present) from significant others of the past. "I am not your mother. …

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…

Significant Other History

Significant Other History

A structured elicitation of the people who most influenced the client, and of the "stamps" (causal conclusions) formed in those relationship…

Situational Analysis: Elicitation Phase

Situational Analysis: Elicitation Phase

The first part of Situational Analysis — a structured gathering of information about a concrete situation: what happened, what was thought, …

Situational Analysis: Remediation Phase

Situational Analysis: Remediation Phase

The second part of SA — an analysis: which interpretations are accurate and useful for the DO? Which behavior would have helped? What could …

Transference Hypothesis Formulation

Transference Hypothesis Formulation

Based on the stamps from the significant-other list — a prediction of what the client will expect from the therapist. The hypothesis guides …

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