Study for DBT Certification Exam 2022 (Answered)

Study for DBT Certification Exam 2022 (Answered) Dialectical Dilemmas (Turn into secondary behavioral targets) - emotional vulnerability vs. self invalidation - active passivity vs. apparent competence - unrelenting crisis vs. inhibited grieving PreTreatement: Orienting, Biosocial Model Education, Commitment to: 1. decrease suicidal behaviors and parasuicidal behaviors 2. decrease therapy interfering behaviors 3. increase behavioral skills Stages of Treatment 1. Stage 1 - decreasing suicidal behaviors -decreasing therapy interfering behaviors -decreasing QOL interfering behaviors - Increasing behavioral skills 2. Stage 2 - Decreasing PTSD behaviors 3. Stage 3 - Increasing self respect and achieving goals Behavioral Skills 1. Mindfulness 2. Distress Tolerance 3. Emotion Regulation 4. Interpersonal Effectiveness 5. Self Management Assumptions about BPDs and Treatment - Patients are doing the best they can - Patients want to improve - Patients need to do better, try harder - Patients may not have caused problems but have to solve them anyway - lives of patients are unbearable - patients need to learn new behaviors in all context - patients cannot fail therapy -therapist need support Therapist Consultation Agreements - Dialectical - Consultation to the patient -Inconsistency: goal of therapy is not to make a perfect, consistent world - observing limits -phenomenological empathy -fallibility Basic Treatment Strategies