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How to Get Through Crisis
Crisis response coping is crucial for individuals with poor emotion regulation How to Get Through Crisis By SARA STAGGS, LICSW, MPH ~ 2 min read Distress is a fact of life. It’s a wide range of triggers: it’s not always our turn, or we have bad luck, or we make a bad decision and have to suffer the consequences or we experience oppression and injustice and so on. How upsetting these different degrees of distress are depends not only on the magnitude of the event, it depends on us—the same event may be annoying to one person and catastrophic to another. Most of us have different ways of dealing with…
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Judgments – Mental Shortcuts, or Distortions in Reality?
Borderline personality disorder, a condition once considered “untreatable” by mental health professionals, can now effectively be managed with Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Judgments – Mental Shortcuts, or Distortions in Reality? By Caroline Fleck He’s so smart; I’m chubby; she’s ugly; he’s bad for you; they’re perfect together – what do all of these statements have in common? They’re judgments; they reflect matters of opinion, not indisputable facts. That may not seem too terribly fascinating, or insightful, but bear with me. Because what is phenomenal, in my opinion, is the extent to which we allow our judgments to affect our decisions, mood, and functioning. The past 50 years alone have produced…
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National Alliance on Mental Illness offers Family to Family education program – New Jersey
The course discusses the clinical treatment of these illnesses and teaches the knowledge and skills that family members need to cope more effectively as caregivers. National Alliance on Mental Illness offers Family to Family education program By Hunterdon County Democrat on January 16, 2015 at 2:24 PM, updated January 16, 2015 at 2:28 PM NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, Family to Family Education Program is a 12-week course for anyone with an adult (over 18 years) family member or close friend with a mental illness (brain disorder). The course is taught by trained NAMI family members. All course materials are furnished at no cost. The curriculum focuses on…
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Change in Emotion Regulation during the Course of Treatment Predicts Binge Abstinence
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), which appears to be an effective treatment for binge eating disorder Change in Emotion Regulation during the Course of Treatment Predicts Binge Abstinence in Guided Self-help Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Binge Eating Disorder Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), which appears to be an effective treatment for binge eating disorder (BED), focuses on teaching emotion regulation skills. However, the role of improved emotion regulation in predicting treatment outcome in BED is uncertain. Methods: This secondary analysis explored whether change in self-reported emotion regulation (as measured by the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale) during treatment was associated with abstinence from binge eating at post-treatment and 4-, 5-, and 6-month…
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You can tolerate frustration (even though it hurts)
Pain hurts. Frustration is painful. It’s bothersome but it is bound to be a part of life. Not getting what you want, or having what you like taken from you, not getting your way and the many other of life’s frustrations can make you suffer. Pain avoidance or the immediate cessation of frustration is one of life’s biggest motivators. Unfortunately, some of life’s frustrations don’t have an immediate remedy. Sometimes you have to live in a frustrating situation for a period of time. While you might start to believe “I can’t take it anymore,” I would encourage you to ask yourself, “Really? Can I not take it anymore?” Why do…
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DBT Treatment Developer Dr. Marsha Linehan Releases New Edition of Bestselling Skills Manual
Skills are aimed at helping individuals build lives that they themselves will experience as worth living. DBT Treatment Developer Dr. Marsha Linehan Releases New Edition of Bestselling Skills Manual The second edition of the Dialectical Behavior Therapy® Skills Training Manual adds more than 20 new skills for use with both clinical and non-clinical populations. Dr. Marsha M. Linehan has distilled more than two decades of research into this two-part volume designed for use inside and outside the therapy room. October 20, 2014, marks the publication date of the long-awaited second edition of the Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT®) Skills Training Manual. The bestselling, first edition of Dr. Marsha Linehan’s DBT® Skills…