Borderline Personality Disorder
DBT Overview
DBT Skills
100

This age (or older) is best practice for diagnosing BPD.

What is age 18? 

100

This is the other end/pole of the dialectical dilemma "self-invalidation." 

What is Emotional Vulnerability? 

100

These are the four categories of skills taught in group. 

What are interpersonal effectiveness, mindfulness, distress tolerance, and emotion regulation?

200

A diagnosis using the DSM 5-TR of BPD requires this many symptoms (or more) symptoms to qualify.

What is 5? 

200

This is the other end/pole of the dialectical dilemma "inhibited grieving." 

What is unrelenting crisis? 

200

A client does not typically start with attending what in the pre-treatment phase? 

What is skills group? 

300

This is one of the three characteristics that define emotional vulnerability. 

What is: 

heightened sensitivity

heightened reactivity/intensity

slow return to baseline

300

These are the four modes of treatment in DBT.

What are individual therapy, group therapy, phone coaching, and consultation group? 

300

This is a type of behavioral analysis used with clients when trying to analyze factors that contributed to not engaging in expected or needed behavior for their goals/values.

What is a Missing Links Analysis? 

400

This is a framework explaining human behavior as a product of the interplay between biological predispositions (like genetics, temperament, neurobiology) and social/environmental factors (like upbringing, culture, experiences).

What is biosocial theory? 

400

This is the hierarchy of targets in individual therapy (4).

What is life interfering behaviors, therapy interfering behaviors, quality of life interfering bhs, and increasing bh skills? 

400

This is a type of conditioning where voluntary behaviors are modified through consequences—reinforcement (increases behavior) or punishment (decreases behavior),

What is Operant Conditioning? 

500

This is the missing category of dysregulation used to reconceptualize symptoms of BPD - emotional, self, interpersonal, behavioral,...

What is cognitive? 

500

This is one of the treatment assumptions that both patients and therapists agree to within DBT?

What is: 

Patients cannot fail therapy.

The lives of borderline individuals are unbearable as they are being lived. 

Patients need to try hard, do better, and be more motivated to change.

Patients are doing the best they can. 

500

These are underlying physical, emotional, or environmental conditions that make an individual more susceptible to engaging in problematic behaviors. 

What are vulnerability factors? 

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