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According to Linehan, BPD clients possess 6 behavioral patterns. These
are: - ANSWER ✔✔emotional vulnerability, self invalidation,
unrelenting crisis, inhibited grieving, active passivity, and apparent
competence
Linehan's criteria for BPD is most similar to - ANSWER ✔✔Millon
What % of BPD client's engage in self-injurious behaviors? -
ANSWER ✔✔70-75%
Kreitman introduced this term meaning nonfatal, intentional self injurious
behavior resulting in actual tissue damage, illness, or risk of death; or 2)
,ingestion of any drugs or substance not prescribed or in excess to the
prescription with intent to cause harm or death. This term includes both
SI gestures and self injurious behaviors with little or not intent to cause
death. - ANSWER ✔✔parasuicide
4 differences between CBT and DBT: - ANSWER ✔✔1) Emphasis on
acceptance and validation of behavior as it is in the moment
2) Emphasis on TIBs
3) Emphasis on the therapeutic relationship
4) Focus on dialectical processes
The term "dialectics" as applied to behavioral therapy has come to imply
2 contexts of usage: - ANSWER ✔✔1) fundamental nature of reality
and persuasive dialogue and relationship.
2) Treatment approach or strategies used by the therapist to effect
change.
Dialectics as a worldview has 3 traits: - ANSWER ✔✔1)
interrelatedness and wholeness
2) Principles of Polarity (within dysfunction there is function, wise mind,
finding value in one's pt of view, looking for the function within the
present moment)
,3) Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis: Principles of Continuous Change
Borderline splitting is defined as - ANSWER ✔✔tendency to get stuck
in either the thesis or the antithesis, unable to move to a synthesis.
Either/or thinking
The environment- person system is comprised of the: - ANSWER
✔✔environmental sub-system (social support, life change, suicidal,
suicidal consequences) demographic factors (age, sex, and race), and
behavioral subsystem ( cognitive, over motor, and physiological affective
system)
Grostein proposed bpd is a disorder of - ANSWER ✔✔self regulation
characteristics of emotional vulnerability includes : - ANSWER
✔✔high sensitivity to emotional stimuli, emotional intensity, slow return
to emotional baseline.
emotional regulation requires 2 paradoxical strategies - ANSWER
✔✔1) the individual must learn to experience and label the discreet
emotions
2) the individual must learn to reduce emotionally relevant stimuli that
serve either to reactivate and augment ongoing negative emotions or to
set off secondary dysfunctional emotional responses.
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, inhibition of emotions can lead to - ANSWER ✔✔1) neglect of the
problem situation causing the emotions
2) increase in emotional avoidance (emotion phobic)
3) research is unknown on the outcome of emotion inhibition over the
long term
Poorness of fit results (Chess and Thomas) - ANSWER ✔✔when
there is discrepancies and dissonances between environmental
opportunities and demands and the capacities and characteristics of the
child. In these instances , distorted environment and maladaptive
functions results.
Per Linehan, an invalidating enivorment: - ANSWER ✔✔is one in
which communication of private experiences is met by erratic,
inappropriate, and extreme responses.
Invalidation has 2 primary traits - ANSWER ✔✔1) it tells the person
that they are wrong 2) it attributes her experiences to socially
unacceptable characteristics or personality traits
consequences of invalidating environments - ANSWER ✔✔1)
emotional labeling is not learned, 2) distress intolerance and unrealistic
goals/ expectations are instilled, 3) extreme behavioral displays are used
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According to Linehan, BPD clients possess 6 behavioral patterns. These
are: - ANSWER ✔✔emotional vulnerability, self invalidation,
unrelenting crisis, inhibited grieving, active passivity, and apparent
competence
Linehan's criteria for BPD is most similar to - ANSWER ✔✔Millon
What % of BPD client's engage in self-injurious behaviors? -
ANSWER ✔✔70-75%
Kreitman introduced this term meaning nonfatal, intentional self injurious
behavior resulting in actual tissue damage, illness, or risk of death; or 2)
,ingestion of any drugs or substance not prescribed or in excess to the
prescription with intent to cause harm or death. This term includes both
SI gestures and self injurious behaviors with little or not intent to cause
death. - ANSWER ✔✔parasuicide
4 differences between CBT and DBT: - ANSWER ✔✔1) Emphasis on
acceptance and validation of behavior as it is in the moment
2) Emphasis on TIBs
3) Emphasis on the therapeutic relationship
4) Focus on dialectical processes
The term "dialectics" as applied to behavioral therapy has come to imply
2 contexts of usage: - ANSWER ✔✔1) fundamental nature of reality
and persuasive dialogue and relationship.
2) Treatment approach or strategies used by the therapist to effect
change.
Dialectics as a worldview has 3 traits: - ANSWER ✔✔1)
interrelatedness and wholeness
2) Principles of Polarity (within dysfunction there is function, wise mind,
finding value in one's pt of view, looking for the function within the
present moment)
,3) Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis: Principles of Continuous Change
Borderline splitting is defined as - ANSWER ✔✔tendency to get stuck
in either the thesis or the antithesis, unable to move to a synthesis.
Either/or thinking
The environment- person system is comprised of the: - ANSWER
✔✔environmental sub-system (social support, life change, suicidal,
suicidal consequences) demographic factors (age, sex, and race), and
behavioral subsystem ( cognitive, over motor, and physiological affective
system)
Grostein proposed bpd is a disorder of - ANSWER ✔✔self regulation
characteristics of emotional vulnerability includes : - ANSWER
✔✔high sensitivity to emotional stimuli, emotional intensity, slow return
to emotional baseline.
emotional regulation requires 2 paradoxical strategies - ANSWER
✔✔1) the individual must learn to experience and label the discreet
emotions
2) the individual must learn to reduce emotionally relevant stimuli that
serve either to reactivate and augment ongoing negative emotions or to
set off secondary dysfunctional emotional responses.
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PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
, inhibition of emotions can lead to - ANSWER ✔✔1) neglect of the
problem situation causing the emotions
2) increase in emotional avoidance (emotion phobic)
3) research is unknown on the outcome of emotion inhibition over the
long term
Poorness of fit results (Chess and Thomas) - ANSWER ✔✔when
there is discrepancies and dissonances between environmental
opportunities and demands and the capacities and characteristics of the
child. In these instances , distorted environment and maladaptive
functions results.
Per Linehan, an invalidating enivorment: - ANSWER ✔✔is one in
which communication of private experiences is met by erratic,
inappropriate, and extreme responses.
Invalidation has 2 primary traits - ANSWER ✔✔1) it tells the person
that they are wrong 2) it attributes her experiences to socially
unacceptable characteristics or personality traits
consequences of invalidating environments - ANSWER ✔✔1)
emotional labeling is not learned, 2) distress intolerance and unrealistic
goals/ expectations are instilled, 3) extreme behavioral displays are used
