VBHS Dialectical Behavioral Theory methods focus on 4 primary forms of treatment for Individuals and group
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Mindfulness: reduce your suffering and develop skills to accept thoughts and urges without criticizing or acting impulsively. Learn to stay in the present moment without ruminating on the past or worrying about the future to improve your life.
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Interpersonal Effectiveness: learn strategies for asking for what you need, saying no, and coping with interpersonal conflict to help you meet your needs without damaging a relationship.
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Emotion Regulation: learn skills to regulate out-of-control emotional states. Emotional regulation enables you to express yourself in helpful ways fully.
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Distress Tolerance: learn skills for coping with crises without reacting impulsively and worsening the situation.
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is a modified type of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). Its main goals are to teach people how to live in the moment, develop healthy ways to cope with stress, regulate their emotions, and improve their relationships with others. As its name suggests, DBT is influenced by the philosophical perspective of dialectics: balancing opposites. The therapist consistently works with the
individual to find ways to hold two seemingly opposite views at once, promoting balance and avoiding black-and-white—the all-or-nothing styles of thinking.
Service setting which DBT are often used
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Individual therapy with a trained professional is where a patient’s learned behavioral skills are adapted to their personal life challenges.
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Phone coaching in which patients can call the therapist between sessions to receive guidance on coping with a difficult situation they are currently in.
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Group therapy is where patients are taught behavioral skills in a group setting.
DBT therapy can help you better manage mood or behavior instability; poor self-image; negative, judgmental, or rigid thinking; and relationship issues.
DBT has evolved to become an evidence-based psychotherapy approach that is used to treat many conditions
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Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
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Bipolar disorder
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Borderline personality disorder (BPD)
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Eating disorders (such as anorexia nervosa, binge eating disorder, and bulimia nervosa)
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Major depressive disorder (including treatment-resistant major depression and chronic depression)
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Non-suicidal self-injury
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Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
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Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
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Substance use disorder
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Suicidal behavior
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a psycho-social intervention that aims to reduce symptoms of various mental health conditions, primarily depression and anxiety disorders. CBT focuses on challenging and changing cognitive distortions (thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes) and their associated behaviors to improve emotional regulation and develop personal coping strategies that target solving current problems. Though initially designed to treat depression, its uses have been expanded to treat many mental health conditions, including anxiety, substance use disorders, marital issues, and eating disorders. CBT consists of several cognitive or behavioral psychotherapies that use evidence-based techniques and strategies to treat defined psychopathologies.
CBT is a common form of talk therapy based on the combination of the basic principles from behavioral and cognitive psychology. It differs from historical psychotherapy approaches, such as the psychoanalytic approach, where the therapist looks for the unconscious meaning behind the behaviors and then formulates a diagnosis. Instead, CBT is a "problem-focused" and "action-oriented" form of therapy, meaning it is used to treat specific problems related to a diagnosed mental disorder. The therapist's role is to assist the client in finding and practicing effective strategies to address the identified goals and alleviate symptoms of the disease.[CBT is based on the belief that thought distortions and maladaptive behaviors play a role in developing and maintaining many psychological disorders and that symptoms and associated distress can be reduced by teaching new information-processing skills and coping mechanisms.
Psychotherapy (also psychological therapy, talk therapy, or talking therapy) uses psychological methods, mainly based on regular personal interaction, to help a person change behavior, increase happiness, and overcome problems. Psychotherapy aims to improve an individual's well-being and mental health, resolve or mitigate troublesome behaviors, beliefs, compulsions, thoughts, or emotions, and improve relationships and social skills. Numerous psychotherapy types have been designed for individual adults, families, or children and adolescents. Certain types of psychotherapy are considered evidence-based for treating some diagnosed mental disorders; other classes have been criticized as pseudoscience.
There are hundreds of psychotherapy techniques, some with minor variations; others are based on very different conceptions of psychology. Most involve one-to-one sessions between the client and therapist, but some are conducted with groups, including families.
Psychotherapists may include psychiatrists, psychologists, mental health nurses, clinical social workers, marriage and family therapists, or professional counselors. Psychotherapists may also come from farther backgrounds and, depending on the jurisdiction may be legally regulated, voluntarily regulated, or unregulated (and the term itself may be protected or not).