DBT
Who is the creator of DBT?
Marsha Linehan
What theory does Marsha Linehan incorporate into her therapy approach?
Biosocial Theory
What two types of behavior analysis do DBT therapist's utilize in treatment?
Chain analysis and missing-links analysis
True or False: Skills training is based off the idea that people are doing the best they can at any given moment.
True
What are the two most common New Years resolutions people make?
Exercise
Lose weight
What is the goal of skills training in DBT?
To learn how to change your own behaviors, emotions, and thoughts that are linked to problems with living and are causing misery and distress.
The idea of a genetic predisposition looks at the _____ basis for behavior.
Biological
__________ is for when you engage in ineffective behavior.
Chain analysis
True or False: People are the cause of all of their problems.
False! Skills training assumes that people ARE NOT the cause of all of their problems, however they can alter their responses and their environment to work towards a life worth living.
How many days do individuals believe you should not engage in a behavior to break a habit or problem behavior?
3. Researchers believe if you want to break a habit, do not engage in the behavior for 3 consecutive days. Day 1 as a breather, day 2 as a break, and day 3 as the start of a new pattern.
True or False: The concept of dialetics in DBT allows for two extremes to exist.
True. For example: you can be happy, and you can be sad.
It is the ____ that count between a person and their social environment is the basis for biosocial theory.
Transactions
"The idea that we influence our environment, our environment influences us, so on and so forth."
_________ is for when you fail to engage in effective behaviors.
Missing-links analysis.
True or False: All behaviors (emotions, thoughts, actions) are caused.
True, even if we cannot identify a cause initially!
True or False: Most people fall off their New Year's Resolutions by the end of January.
False - on average, New Years resolutions tend to fail by the second week of February.
What are Marsha's 4 options for solving a problem?
1) Solve the problem
2)Feel better about the problem
3)Tolerate the problem
4) Stay miserable.
Give an example how an ineffective social environment can impact your goals towards recovery.
1)It may reinforce problem behaviors
2)Codependency
3)Enabling
4)May tell you to do X, but not guide you on how to achieve X
What type of analysis would you use if: You missed and did not attend your scheduled appointment with your therapist this week.
Missing-links analysis
True or False: People want to improve.
True! DBT looks at the idea that all people want to improve their lives and be happy in some manner.
What percentage of people keep their New Year's resolutions each year?
a: 5%
b: 10%
c: 8%
d:15%
What are the 4 modules in DBT?
Mindfulness Skills, Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills, Emotion Regulation Skills, and Distress Tolerance Skills.
Give an example of how an invalidating social environment can impact an individual.
1) Tells you your emotions are wrong/bad/invalid
2)Ignores your emotions and doesn't help you
3)Minimizes, invalidates, or negates your emotions.
List the 5 pieces of information gathered when completing chain analysis.
Vulnerability, Prompting Event, Chain of Events (links), Problem Behavior(s), and Consequences.
True or False: Placing blame or judgement will evoke change.
False: Placing blame and judgement may be easier, however it may keep the individual stuck.
The idea used to be 21 days to start a new habit, however research now suggests it can take on average ____ months for a new behavior to become automatic.
2