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Rumination

13 techniques · 10 approaches
ACT
Leaves on a Stream
Leaves on a Stream
A classic ACT visualization meditation. The client imagines a calm stream and places each arriving thought, emotion or sensation on a leaf, …
BA
Rumination-Cued Activation
Rumination-Cued Activation
A Behavioral Activation technique focused on rumination-cued activation. It helps the therapist and client move from depressive withdrawal, …
CBT
Cognitive Distortions (Burns)
Cognitive Distortions (Burns)
Teaching clients to recognize common thinking errors such as all-or-nothing thinking, catastrophizing, mind reading and discounting the posi…
CBT
Cognitive Restructuring
Cognitive Restructuring
A core CBT technique and the center of cognitive work. The therapist helps the client catch an automatic negative thought, examine its logic…
CBT
Socratic Questioning
Socratic Questioning
The skill of asking questions instead of giving advice. The therapist does not say, "your thought is wrong," but helps the client reach a mo…
CFT
Compassionate Attention Training
Compassionate Attention Training
A specific form of attention training in CFT: the threat system automatically draws attention to the dangerous and the negative. Compassiona…
DBT
Observe
Observe
Building the capacity to notice phenomena — thoughts, emotions, sensations, events — without trying to change them, stop them, or grab onto …
DBT
Participate
Participate
Building the capacity to engage fully in the current activity, without scattering attention, without self-monitoring, without criticizing wh…
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…
Längle
Self-Distancing and Self-Transcendence
Self-Distancing and Self-Transcendence
Two complementary capacities that form the "personal" pole of the Existence Scale (ESK). Self-distancing is the capacity to look at oneself …
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
Sitting Meditation — Open Awareness / Choiceless Awareness
Sitting Meditation — Open Awareness / Choiceless Awareness
A development of the sitting meditation: from the focus on the breath — to an open field of perception that includes sounds, body sensations…
MCT
Rumination Postponement
Rumination Postponement
An analog of worry postponement for depressive rumination. When the client notices the start of the cycle of "why am I like this / what is w…
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