Valued Domains
This Valued Domains information handout is designed to introduce valued domains in an accessible way, and to help clients clarify their values in different areas of their lives, such as their wider family, intimate relationships, work, and spiritual life.
Valued Domains
This Valued Domains tool will help you explore what matters most in your life. It can make you more aware of your personal values and guide you in taking meaningful actions in important areas of your life.
Overview
Values are the “principles for living” that capture what matters most to people. Elucidating values can serve many therapeutic functions, such as clarifying one’s sense of purpose, informing goal setting and treatment planning, and motivating clients to engage with difficult experiences or challenging therapeutic tasks. Values-focused interventions have a long history in talking therapy and are used in many approaches, with acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) being a notable modern example. This Valued Domains information handout is designed to introduce valued domains in an accessible way, and to help clients clarify their values in different areas of their lives, such as their wider family, intimate relationships, work, and spiritual life. Exploring the domains in which values are enacted is an effective and highly motivating introduction to the concept of values for clients, in a way which also promotes psychological flexibility.
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