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DBT BOARD CERTIFICATION EXAM NEWEST 2025
ACTUAL EXAM| COMPLETE 150 REAL EXAM
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
(VERIFIED ANSWERS) ALREADY GRADED A+||
BRAND NEW!!
What are the Crisis strategies? - ANSWER - 1. Paying attention to effect
rather than content. 2. Exploring the problem problem now. 3. Focusing
on problem-solving. 4. Focusing on affect tolerance. 5. Obtaining
commitment to plan of action. 6. Assessing suicide potential. 7.
Anticipating a recurrence of the crisis response.
What is the protocol for the primary therapist during threats of suicide
(imminent) or Parasuicide? - ANSWER - 1. Assessing the risk of suicide
or parasuicide. 2. Removing or convincing the patient to remove lethal
items. 3. Emphatically instructing the patient not to commit suicide or
parasuicide. 4. Maintaining suicide is not a good solution. 5. Generating
hopeful statements and solutions. 6. When suicide risk is imminent and
high, keeping contact and keeping to the treatment plan. 7. Anticipating
recurrent urges.
What are therapy interfering behaviors strategies? - ANSWER - 1.
Defining the interfering behavior. 2. Conducting a chain analysis of the
behavior. 3. Adopting a problem-solving plan. 4. Responding to the
patient who refuses to modify interfering behavior.
What are the types of patient initiated phone calls? - ANSWER - 1.
Focusing on skills. 2. Repairing the relationship.
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What are the principles of risk management with suicidal patients? -
ANSWER - 1. Self assessment of technical impersonal competence. 2.
Meticulous and timely documentation. 3. Previous medical and
Psychotherapy records. 4. Involving the family. 5. Consultation with
other professionals. 6. Postvention
What are the guidelines when the patient wants hospitalization and the
therapist disagrees? - ANSWER - 1. Maintaining one's own position. 2.
Validating the patient's right to maintain her position. 3. Insisting the
patient take care of herself. 4. Helping the patient get her self admitted.
5. Not punishing patient for going against advice.
What do you do with relationship interfering problems not brought up by
the patient? - ANSWER - Usually solved within the consultation or
individual supervision meetings. Colleagues apply DBT strategies to
therapist.
What is the relationship strategy of relationship problem-solving? -
ANSWER - Needed whenever the relationship is a source of problems
for either member. All problem-solving from chapter 9 work.
Relationship problems and group may be taken up within group or
individually, depending on the patient fear or anger so extreme patient or
serious relationship mistakes by the therapist not admitted during session
need phone calls.
What is the rationale and spirit of "consultation to the patient"? -
ANSWER - 1. Teach patients to manage their own lives. 2. Decrease
instances of splitting between DBT therapist and other individuals
interacting with the patients. 3. Encourage respect for the patients.
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What conditions mandate, environmental intervention? - ANSWER - 1.
Intervening when the patient is unable to act on her own behalf and the
outcome is very important. 2. Intervening when the environment is
intransigent (refusal to change views) and high-end power. 3.
Intervening to save the life of the patient or avoid substantial to others.
4. Intervening when it is the humane thing to do and will cause no harm.
5. Patient is a minor.
Environmental intervention strategies are used instead of consultation to
the patient when? - ANSWER - 1. Outcome is essential. 2. The patient
clearly does not have the power or capability to produce the outcome.
From the perspective of managing the therapist, what does the case
management have to do with? - ANSWER - Helping the therapist apply
the DBT protocol in a skillful and effective manner
When are environmental intervention strategies used? - ANSWER -
(because of the characteristics of the environment or patient abilities) the
consultation strategies are clearly unworkable or inappropriate
What is the dominant form of case management? - ANSWER -
Consultation to the patient (balanced when necessary by traditional
intervention oriented case management strategies)
* goal is to teach client to be her own case manager
What are the four stages of treatment? - ANSWER - Pre-treatment: stage
of orientation and commitment
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Stage 1: attaining basic capacities
Stage 2: reducing post traumatic stress
Stage 3: increasing self-respect and meeting individual patient goals
What is the primary task in ending DBT? - ANSWER - Prepare the
patient for life without DBT and to orient the patient to what she can
expect from the therapist and treatment team after formal treatment ends
What is the primary task in the beginning of DBT? - ANSWER -
Develop a collaborative treatment contract
What issues are central and case management roles? - ANSWER - Issues
of autonomy versus dependence, freedom, versus security, control versus
helplessness
When does the therapist move to the case management strategies? -
ANSWER - Whenever problems or obstacles in the environment,
interfere with the patient's functioning or progress
What does case management refer to? - ANSWER - Helping the patient
manage her physical and social environment so that her overall life
functioning and well-being are enhanced, her progress towards life goals
is facilitated and her treatment progress is expedited
What are the three sets of case management strategies? - ANSWER - 1.
Consultation to the patient.
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DBT BOARD CERTIFICATION EXAM NEWEST 2025
ACTUAL EXAM| COMPLETE 150 REAL EXAM
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
(VERIFIED ANSWERS) ALREADY GRADED A+||
BRAND NEW!!
What are the Crisis strategies? - ANSWER - 1. Paying attention to effect
rather than content. 2. Exploring the problem problem now. 3. Focusing
on problem-solving. 4. Focusing on affect tolerance. 5. Obtaining
commitment to plan of action. 6. Assessing suicide potential. 7.
Anticipating a recurrence of the crisis response.
What is the protocol for the primary therapist during threats of suicide
(imminent) or Parasuicide? - ANSWER - 1. Assessing the risk of suicide
or parasuicide. 2. Removing or convincing the patient to remove lethal
items. 3. Emphatically instructing the patient not to commit suicide or
parasuicide. 4. Maintaining suicide is not a good solution. 5. Generating
hopeful statements and solutions. 6. When suicide risk is imminent and
high, keeping contact and keeping to the treatment plan. 7. Anticipating
recurrent urges.
What are therapy interfering behaviors strategies? - ANSWER - 1.
Defining the interfering behavior. 2. Conducting a chain analysis of the
behavior. 3. Adopting a problem-solving plan. 4. Responding to the
patient who refuses to modify interfering behavior.
What are the types of patient initiated phone calls? - ANSWER - 1.
Focusing on skills. 2. Repairing the relationship.
pg. 1
,2|Page
What are the principles of risk management with suicidal patients? -
ANSWER - 1. Self assessment of technical impersonal competence. 2.
Meticulous and timely documentation. 3. Previous medical and
Psychotherapy records. 4. Involving the family. 5. Consultation with
other professionals. 6. Postvention
What are the guidelines when the patient wants hospitalization and the
therapist disagrees? - ANSWER - 1. Maintaining one's own position. 2.
Validating the patient's right to maintain her position. 3. Insisting the
patient take care of herself. 4. Helping the patient get her self admitted.
5. Not punishing patient for going against advice.
What do you do with relationship interfering problems not brought up by
the patient? - ANSWER - Usually solved within the consultation or
individual supervision meetings. Colleagues apply DBT strategies to
therapist.
What is the relationship strategy of relationship problem-solving? -
ANSWER - Needed whenever the relationship is a source of problems
for either member. All problem-solving from chapter 9 work.
Relationship problems and group may be taken up within group or
individually, depending on the patient fear or anger so extreme patient or
serious relationship mistakes by the therapist not admitted during session
need phone calls.
What is the rationale and spirit of "consultation to the patient"? -
ANSWER - 1. Teach patients to manage their own lives. 2. Decrease
instances of splitting between DBT therapist and other individuals
interacting with the patients. 3. Encourage respect for the patients.
pg. 2
,3|Page
What conditions mandate, environmental intervention? - ANSWER - 1.
Intervening when the patient is unable to act on her own behalf and the
outcome is very important. 2. Intervening when the environment is
intransigent (refusal to change views) and high-end power. 3.
Intervening to save the life of the patient or avoid substantial to others.
4. Intervening when it is the humane thing to do and will cause no harm.
5. Patient is a minor.
Environmental intervention strategies are used instead of consultation to
the patient when? - ANSWER - 1. Outcome is essential. 2. The patient
clearly does not have the power or capability to produce the outcome.
From the perspective of managing the therapist, what does the case
management have to do with? - ANSWER - Helping the therapist apply
the DBT protocol in a skillful and effective manner
When are environmental intervention strategies used? - ANSWER -
(because of the characteristics of the environment or patient abilities) the
consultation strategies are clearly unworkable or inappropriate
What is the dominant form of case management? - ANSWER -
Consultation to the patient (balanced when necessary by traditional
intervention oriented case management strategies)
* goal is to teach client to be her own case manager
What are the four stages of treatment? - ANSWER - Pre-treatment: stage
of orientation and commitment
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Stage 1: attaining basic capacities
Stage 2: reducing post traumatic stress
Stage 3: increasing self-respect and meeting individual patient goals
What is the primary task in ending DBT? - ANSWER - Prepare the
patient for life without DBT and to orient the patient to what she can
expect from the therapist and treatment team after formal treatment ends
What is the primary task in the beginning of DBT? - ANSWER -
Develop a collaborative treatment contract
What issues are central and case management roles? - ANSWER - Issues
of autonomy versus dependence, freedom, versus security, control versus
helplessness
When does the therapist move to the case management strategies? -
ANSWER - Whenever problems or obstacles in the environment,
interfere with the patient's functioning or progress
What does case management refer to? - ANSWER - Helping the patient
manage her physical and social environment so that her overall life
functioning and well-being are enhanced, her progress towards life goals
is facilitated and her treatment progress is expedited
What are the three sets of case management strategies? - ANSWER - 1.
Consultation to the patient.
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