A woman with a flat tire stands on the side of the road and cries, unable to address the problem.
What is Active Passivity
100
Clients who struggle with this have been described as 'third degree burn' victims.
What is Emotional Vulnerability
100
The creator of DBT
Who is Marsha Linehan
200
A man gets fired from his job for yelling at his boss. He goes to the bar on his way home and gets into a fist fight with another patron, injuring the other person. This leads to an arrest and prison time, which in turn leads to loss of his home and possessions.
Being sick, medication changes, physical pain, lack of sleep, substance use and appetite changes can lead to this.
What is emotional vulnerability
300
A woman comes in to therapy for help with coping with loss of her relationship. She is the owner of a successful business and she works 7 days per week. She is so depressed that she can't problem solve how move out of the home she and her ex share. She lays in bed all weekend and after work and cries, instead of looking for a new place.
What is apparent competence
300
Caused in part by an invalidating environment, these individuals learn not to trust their own emotional responses as valid reflections of individual or situation events. Thus is unable to validate and trust oneself.
What is Self-Invalidation
300
Patterns of behavior that become problems that must first be solved in order to deal with problems regarding invalidation and emotional dysregulation.
What are dialectical dilemmas
400
A young boy witnesses his sister get hit and killed by a car at age 6; he is placed in foster care at age 8 due to severe abuse and neglect; he moves to 11 different foster homes in 1 year due to behavioral problems. By age 30 he is using substances daily to cope with his flashbacks of trauma and loss.
What movie is an early (and extreme) portrayal of Borderline Personality Disorder starring Glenn Close and Michael Douglas?
What is 'Fatal Attraction'.
500
A fast food employee who just lost his father is given an 'employee of the month' award, and he thinks 'they only did that because they feel sorry for me, I don't deserve it'.