When It Is Used
Use it at the beginning of relationship-focused treatment when the dyad’s presenting problems need to be reframed around interpersonal development and attachment repair.
Relational Reframe
Relational Reframe is a live-session practitioner aid for early therapy with an adolescent and caregiver. Practitioners use it to shift the working frame from blame, symptoms, or individual fault toward shared interpersonal development and attachment repair.
Open the sample reframing workspace and review how a presenting frame becomes a documented relational focus.
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Tool guide
Learn more about this tool
Use this background section to understand when the tool fits, how practitioners use it, and what to consider before sharing it with clients.
What It Captures
It captures the presenting frame, adolescent perspective, caregiver perspective, emerging relational frame, relational aims, buy-in or resistance, and next-session implications.
Important Limits
It does not diagnose, score, generate therapy scripts, decide the correct relational meaning, or claim that repair has occurred.
Does Relational Reframe create a treatment plan?
No. Relational Reframe documents a shared relational focus and possible goals; it is not a full treatment plan or generic goal builder.
Can the adolescent and caregiver complete it on their own?
No. The adolescent and caregiver participate through practitioner-led conversation; the practitioner documents the reframe.
What happens if one person is not bought in yet?
The entry can remain partial. The tool preserves disagreement or resistance instead of forcing consensus.
Can a summary be shared with the family?
Yes. If selected, the shared view contains only a brief relational focus statement and agreed relational aims suitable for review.