Dbt certification Exam Questions AND Correct Answers
3 Functions of Consultation - ✔✔Support and cheerleading
Balancing Therapist-Patient Dynamic
Context of Treatment
Active Passivity - ✔✔Behaviors that invite others to solve
problems for them; characterized by helplessness
Apparent Competence - ✔✔the ability to be competent in
some domains (when regulated); can hold it together under
the right circumstances; appearing more skillful than you are
Behavior Chain Analysis - ✔✔Vulnerability factors- what
makes us vulnerable to the prompting event
Prompting event- what led to the problem behavior
Problem behavior- what we want to change
Links- what happened between the prompting event and the
problem behavior (thoughts, emotions, and bodily sensations,
etc.)
Consequences- what happens following a problem behavior
(can be short and long term)
,Biosocial Theory - ✔✔emotion dysregulation is a function of
high emotional vulnerability plus the inability to regulate
emotion, and that these difficulties have their roots in
biological predispositions , which are exacerbated by specific
environmental experiences; biological sensitivity transacting
overtime with invalidating environments equals chronic
Pervasive Emotional Dysregulation
Borderline Personality Disorder - ✔✔dysfunction of the
emotion regulation system; a result of biological irregularities
combines with the certain dysfunctional environments;
transacting with dysfunctional environments over time
Case Management Strategies - ✔✔Consultation to the
patient- teaching patients to manage their own life; decreases
splitting; promoting respect of the patient
Environmental Interventions- therapists directly intervenes in
the patients environment
Therapist Supervision/Consultation- therapist seeks
supervision
Consultation Agreements - ✔✔1. Dialectical agreement- no
absolute truth; search for synthesis
, 2. Consultation to Patient- consult with the patient on how to
interact with others, not do it for them
3. Consistency- all members of the team agree that
inconsistencies are expected and are opportunities for skill
use
4. Observing Limits- observe own personal and professional
limits
5. Phenomenological Empathy- therapist should search
empathic interpretations of behavior
6. Fallibility- everyone makes mistakes and may inevitability
break agreements therefore we do not need to be defensive
Contingencies - ✔✔used to modify behavior by changing the
consequences of certain actions
Contingency Management - ✔✔address the behavior on the
DBT priority target list as well as other behaviors related to
them
Contingency Management - ✔✔rewards and punishments
used in therapy to shape behavior; not reinforcing negative
behaviors
3 Functions of Consultation - ✔✔Support and cheerleading
Balancing Therapist-Patient Dynamic
Context of Treatment
Active Passivity - ✔✔Behaviors that invite others to solve
problems for them; characterized by helplessness
Apparent Competence - ✔✔the ability to be competent in
some domains (when regulated); can hold it together under
the right circumstances; appearing more skillful than you are
Behavior Chain Analysis - ✔✔Vulnerability factors- what
makes us vulnerable to the prompting event
Prompting event- what led to the problem behavior
Problem behavior- what we want to change
Links- what happened between the prompting event and the
problem behavior (thoughts, emotions, and bodily sensations,
etc.)
Consequences- what happens following a problem behavior
(can be short and long term)
,Biosocial Theory - ✔✔emotion dysregulation is a function of
high emotional vulnerability plus the inability to regulate
emotion, and that these difficulties have their roots in
biological predispositions , which are exacerbated by specific
environmental experiences; biological sensitivity transacting
overtime with invalidating environments equals chronic
Pervasive Emotional Dysregulation
Borderline Personality Disorder - ✔✔dysfunction of the
emotion regulation system; a result of biological irregularities
combines with the certain dysfunctional environments;
transacting with dysfunctional environments over time
Case Management Strategies - ✔✔Consultation to the
patient- teaching patients to manage their own life; decreases
splitting; promoting respect of the patient
Environmental Interventions- therapists directly intervenes in
the patients environment
Therapist Supervision/Consultation- therapist seeks
supervision
Consultation Agreements - ✔✔1. Dialectical agreement- no
absolute truth; search for synthesis
, 2. Consultation to Patient- consult with the patient on how to
interact with others, not do it for them
3. Consistency- all members of the team agree that
inconsistencies are expected and are opportunities for skill
use
4. Observing Limits- observe own personal and professional
limits
5. Phenomenological Empathy- therapist should search
empathic interpretations of behavior
6. Fallibility- everyone makes mistakes and may inevitability
break agreements therefore we do not need to be defensive
Contingencies - ✔✔used to modify behavior by changing the
consequences of certain actions
Contingency Management - ✔✔address the behavior on the
DBT priority target list as well as other behaviors related to
them
Contingency Management - ✔✔rewards and punishments
used in therapy to shape behavior; not reinforcing negative
behaviors
