When To Use It
Use this after a real opportunity to validate, including times when the client noticed they did not validate.
Validating Others Practice Review Tool
Validating Others is a DBT interpersonal effectiveness practice tool for practitioners reviewing a client's opportunity to validate another person. It helps capture the situation, validation behaviors used, exact invalidating and validating statements, outcome, feelings, and one change to try next time.
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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.
History And Comparison
Repeated records remain individually dated or situated so the practitioner can review practice examples over time without merging them into a broad relationship record.
Can the client complete it if they did not validate?
Yes. The record can capture that the opportunity occurred and that validation did not happen.
What if the client cannot remember exact wording?
The record can mark statements as approximate rather than forcing certainty.
Does the tool score whether validation worked?
No. It records reported outcome and coaching targets without success or failure scoring.