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What is the Radical Acceptance Examples worksheet?
The radical acceptance worksheet runs in three numbered steps across two pages. Step 1: Understanding Radical Acceptance gives three worked examples, including a lost job and a chronic illness diagnosis. Steps 2 and 3 then move the client from a described Situation to their own Acknowledgment, Feelings, Unchangeable Aspects and Controllable Actions.
How to use the Radical Acceptance Examples worksheet
Hand this sheet out as homework once the client has already named the situation aloud. The three examples on page one do the framing, so read one of them together before the client leaves. Your clients can then complete Step 2: Reflect on Personal Situations at home, writing the Situation and Initial Reaction plainly. Keep Unchangeable Aspects and Controllable Actions apart; collapsing them turns acceptance into resignation, which is what this sheet exists to prevent.
Radical Acceptance Examples Worksheet Download – What’s Included
The download is a two-page printable PDF, not fillable. Page one carries the instructions, the three Step 1 examples and the Situation box. Page two holds the blank work: Initial Reaction, then Step 3. Its five blanks run from Your Acknowledgment through Your Feelings, Unchangeable Aspects, Controllable Actions and Your Self-Compassion.
Based on DBT skills developed by Marsha Linehan. Linehan, M. M. (2014). DBT Skills Training Manual (2nd ed.). Guilford Press.
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