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Perspective-taking is considered to be projective or reflective:

 Projective perspective means projecting a point of view into the future; for instance, a therapist, or you yourself, might ask the question: “How do you imagine you will look next year after you have completed therapy?” Of course, you can’t actually know what you’ll look like, so the only way to think about this is to project your feelings and thoughts onto what you imagine your future self might look like.

 When perspective-taking is reflective, it requires the observation of the current experience. So, the therapist might ask, “If you viewed yourself after you had completed a course of DBT a year from now, and could remember yourself as you are today, how would you describe yourself?”

The goal of projective perspective-taking is to help people broaden their awareness by looking outside of themselves. On the other hand, reflective perspective-taking focuses on getting a person to access insights about a current situation. Both of these styles of perspective-taking can be achieved within the person themselves, or they can take the perspective of another person to reflect on new ways of thinking. For example, they might ask, “What would I do if I were my therapist/parent/best friend right now?” Alternatively, imagine what you would say if you were your best friend hearing your own self-criticism.