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Validation

4 techniques · 4 approaches
DBT
GIVE (Gentle, Interested, Validate, Easy manner)
GIVE (Gentle, Interested, Validate, Easy manner)
A four-step skill for keeping and strengthening the relationship. The focus is on connection: when the relationship matters more than the co…
Hakomi
Contact Statements
Contact Statements
Verbal mirroring of the client's current experience. Not interpretation, but acknowledgment of what is there. Creates the sense of "I am see…
IFS
Witnessing the Exile
Witnessing the Exile
Witnessing is the first and most important step of work with an Exile, after permission has been granted by the Protectors. The client's Sel…
MBT
Empathic Validation
Empathic Validation
A baseline first-level MBT intervention in which the therapist acknowledges and confirms the client's emotional experience as understandable…
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