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DBT
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the biosocial model? What parts are in it and how are they related to one another? | Emotional sensitivity combined in an invalidating environment can lead to pervasive emotional dysregulation |
| What does it mean to have a dialectical perspective? | Everyone is right. All behavior is functional and serves a purpose. |
| Describe and give examples of validation | Is the communication of acceptance, understanding, or legitimacy, of the person or his/her behavior & experience. |
| Describe and give examples of invalidation | Is when your behavior or experience is misunderstood, dismissed, mimed, or overreacted/under-reacted to. |
| DBT skills: mindfulness | Client's become increasingly able to willingly and nonjudgmentally engage with their immediate experience |
| DBT skills: emotion regulation | Changing emotional response |
| DBT skills: interpersonal effectiveness | Describe, express, assert, reinforce, mindfully, appear confident, and negotiate |
| DBT skills: Distress Tolerance | Skills include crisis survival skills which are stopgap measures used to tolerate distress without impulsively doing things that make the situation worse. |
| Diary Card | Is where the therapist monitors key behaviors through their client's daily completion of a diary card which they review at the start of every session which helps the therapist target what they need to pay attention to in the session. |
| Chain Analysis | A form of functional analysis- used to identify the variables that control specific instances of targeted problems such as self-injury |
| What is the research evidence for DBT? | - Strong, reduces self-harming behaviors and suicidal thoughts - Also reduces emotional dysregulation |
| What is the therapeutic relationship like in DBT? | Warm, structured, transparent and directive supportive |