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Alan E. Fruzzetti, Ph.D. Recieves International Research Award
Congratulations to Alan E. Fruzzetti, Ph.D. for receiving the 2013 International Society for the Improvement and Teaching of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (ISITDBT) Outstanding Research Award in honor of his outstanding contributions to the field of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). The award recognizes the huge impact on DBT training and treatment development of Fruzzetti’s groundbreaking research on validation and couples therapy as well as his collaborations on DBT for college students. “We feel that Alan is a supremely deserving recipient of the award and we appreciate his many contributions to the DBT community,” ISITDBT said on its website. A valued member of Willow Springs Center’s professional staff, Fruzzetti serves as clinical…
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Dad, I’m in pain
About 8-9 years ago one of my daughters said this to me. She said “Dad, I’m in pain.” She had been having troubles at school. She had been hitting other children in anger. She had been doing poorly in school. I had an educational assessment done on her and found that she was full of anxiety. She scored superior on some psychological tests. She scored so poorly on some tests that she seemed retarded. She was all over the map. The second half of her assessment was about her emotional state. It read like a child borderline. She was unable to regulate her emotions. She was shameful, angry and anxious.…
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Family Skills Training for Adolescents with Emotional Regulation Issues (BPD)
A video on family participation in skills training for adolescents with emotional regulation issues (BPD): No related posts.
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Long Presentation on DBT from Shari Manning
Shari Manning, the author of Loving Someone with Borderline Personality Disorder, presents family DBT skills. It’s long (2 hours+) but worth watching: No related posts.
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Interesting Video in which Marsha Linehan Answers Questions about the Stigma of “Borderline”
Marsha Linehan, the developer of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), answers questions including one about the stigma of the term borderline: No related posts.
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Ask Bon: Why does this person idolize me one day and call me “the devil” the next?
Black-and-white thinking is the tendency for a person to believe that events or other people are either “all-good” or “all-bad” in any given situation. People with BPD will often vacillate between these two polar ways of thinking, sometimes about the same event or person. This way of thinking is also known as “splitting.” In the support community, loved ones of BP’s will say that they have been “split-white” (meaning, they are thought to be all good) or “split-black” (thought to be all bad). A person with BPD who thinks in this fashion will have an inability to see “shades of grey” in a situation or relationship. This approach can be…