{"id":1879,"date":"2015-02-05T22:57:54","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T05:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sunrisertc.com\/?p=1879"},"modified":"2024-03-05T17:49:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T23:49:06","slug":"learning-validate-emotions-residential-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunrisertc.com\/learning-validate-emotions-residential-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning to Validate Emotions In and Out of Residential Treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"

W<\/strong>hen I first began working in residential treatment at Sunrise, I was hit by so many new therapeutic terms. \u00a0All these terms have their own meanings, purpose, and uses.\u00a0 As I love my found knowledge of these helpful words, I would really like to touch on one specifically, Validation. \u00a0If you are a parent of a current Sunrise student I am sure you have heard this word.\u00a0 You have probably heard it from your primary therapist asking you to validate your daughter or asking her to validate you. \u00a0As I work with many parents I often get asked \u201cHow do I validate my daughter when she is telling me she wants to cut herself<\/a> or kill herself?\u201d\u00a0 As I do my best to answer this question I first ask myself what does it mean to validate?\u00a0 According to the Merriman- Webster dictionary, validations, in a therapeutic sense, is defined as, \u201cto recognize, establish, or illustrate the worthiness or legitimacy of (validate his concerns).\u201c \u00a0This can be hard when someone is asked to validate someone else and they don\u2019t feel like the other person\u2019s perception is correct and therefore does not want to validate something they don\u2019t agree with. \u00a0But here is where I want to bring us back to Webster\u2019s meaning and focus in on \u201cillustrate the worthiness or legitimacy of\u201d part of this definition. \u00a0In the residential treatment world, when we refer to validation we are usually asking to validate the emotion, not necessarily what the person is saying.\u00a0 Emotions are never wrong.\u00a0 What we do with our emotions is usually where we go wrong. \u00a0So the next time your daughter tells you that she is so sad and depressed that she wants to self harm<\/a>, you don\u2019t need to argue with her about how she should not self harm, just validate that she is feeling sad and that is something you can relate to. \u00a0Everyone has experienced emotions in one form or another and that is something we can all validate.
\n– written by Vanessa Leach, Residential Manager<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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