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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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Seattle Hosts Ground-breaking International Training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Created by Dr. Marsha Linehan of The University of Washington
Seattle Hosts Ground-breaking International Training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Created by Dr. Marsha Linehan of The University of Washington Seattle, WA (PRWEB) July 18, 2013 Behavioral Tech, LLC (BTECH), based in Seattle and created to bring the benefits of Dr. Marsha Linehan’s research to the world of professionals serving people suffering from mental illness, is hosting the first-ever Dialectical Behavior Therapy Intensive Training TM designed specifically for independent mental health care practitioners. Private mental health providers have gathered this week in Seattle from all over the world to learn from Dr. Linehan, the creator of DBT, and her team of expert trainers at BTECH. Cited as one of the…
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Levels of validation
Karyn Hall at the Emotionally Sensitive Person blog has another great post on the levels of emotional validation… Self-Validation: What Do You Do? By KARYN HALL, PHD Validation is like relationship glue. Validating someone brings you closer. Validating yourself is like glue for fragmented parts of your identity. Validating yourself will help you accept and better understand yourself, which leads to a stronger identity and better skills at managing intense emotions. Being out of control of your emotions is a painful experience and damaging to relationships. Knowing how to self-validate is important to learning to manage your emotions effectively. Self-validation means you can accept your internal experience as understandable and…
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DBT Tip of the Day: Understanding Dialectics
Dialectics or walking the middle path The concept of dialectics comes from philosophy in which two opposing points (the thesis and the antithesis) are brought together in a new understanding of the concept at hand, through a synthesis of these opposing view points. DBT seeks to moderate the black-and-white thinking that people with BPD and all of us sometimes get into. Here are some hints about thinking dialectically: Shift from either-or to both-and thinking. Avoid the polarized words like always, never, every time and you made me. Be descriptive of the situation without judging the situation as good or bad. Example: “My father always treats me unfairly” becomes “Sometimes my father treats…
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DBT Skill of the Day: Wise Mind from the Mindfulness Module
Wise mind is a balance between Reasonable (or Rational) mind and Emotional Mind. Like many skills in DBT, it’s a synthesis of the two opposing mental forces (that’s what dialectics is all about). Marsha Linehan, the inventor of DBT, states: “”Wise mind is that part of each person that can know and experience truth. It is where the person knows something to be true or valid. It is almost always quiet, It has a certain peace. It is where the person knows something in a centered way.” There are 3 states of mind when we think about Wise Mind and Mindfulness. They are described as follows: Reasonable Mind When you…