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Clinical perspectives on how each value presents in therapeutic settings.
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Integrity
Psychodynamic Therapy
Helps the client explore the developmental origins of their moral rigidity and the unconscious conflicts between their principles and their human needs. The long-term relational frame provides a space to experience being accepted while imperfect.
Integrity
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
The parts framework allows the client to relate to their inner critic and moral enforcer as a protective part rather than as the truth. This creates distance without demanding they abandon their values.
Integrity
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Values clarification work helps the client distinguish between values they have chosen and rules they absorbed. Cognitive defusion techniques address the fusion between self and moral code that makes flexibility feel like betrayal.