Mental Health Boundaries Worksheet
By
HappierTherapy
Author bio
The Happier Therapy editorial team is made up of Masters and PhD counselling psychologists. Each worksheet is created by a team member with exposure to and experience in the subject matter. The worksheet then gets reviewed by a more senior editorial member. This is someone with extensive knowledge of the subject matter and highly cited published material.
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What is the theory behind this Mental Health Boundaries Worksheet?
Unhealthy boundaries in relationships occur when either partner does not respect the other’s values, needs and opinions and continues to disregard them. This leads to a possibly toxic or abusive relationship putting the mental health of the abused partner at risk. It is very important in a relationship for partners to define and respect each other’s needs for personal boundaries if they wish to have a long lasting and quality relationship.
How will the worksheet help?
This worksheet will help clients seeking couples or marriage therapy to fix their relationship issues to identify what type of boundaries exist between the two. The signs provided in the worksheet can help them perform a self-analysis to determine whether their behaviour indicates unhealthy or healthy boundaries.
How to use the worksheet?
Provide a copy of the worksheet to each partner and have them analyse their own behaviour according to the given signs in the worksheet. Instruct them to use the checklist to determine which behaviours apply to them. Then explain their choice in the last column of the table.
