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DBT Strategies for Dialectical Thinking: Role Play and Synonym Exercises
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Key Points
- The Best Friend Role Play helps clients who struggle with self-blame to consider how they would support a friend in the same situation.
- The Fortunately-Unfortunately exercise is a narrative technique that alternates between positive and negative events to help clients recognize life’s dialectical nature.
- Dialectical synonyms encourage clients to use positive synonyms to reframe negative language and cultivate a more balanced perspective.
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