Self-as-Context
The next ACT process is one that some have difficulty applying in their clinical work. So this case example should be helpful in clarifying how to do something called self-as-context. In the book ACT Daily Journal, co-written by Dr. Diana Hill and Debbie Sorensen, they changed the wording to call this process “perspective taking”.
How do we help clients take perspective on themselves, and from others? How do they start to decouple their identity, that is, reduce overidentifying with who they are or are not?