DBT: Categories Flashcards
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DBT categories:
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Mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, interpersonal effectiveness
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Mindfulness:
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Be here/now, nonjudgmental awareness
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Distress tolerance:
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Active strategies and willingness to tolerate distress/ frustrations
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Emotion regulation:
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Build impulse control, feeling a strong impulse/ emotion is not the same as acting on it
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Interpersonal effectiveness:
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Get needs met and have healthy relationships, find self-respect balance (middle path)
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Philosophy of DBT
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- Clients are doing the best they can AND they need to be more effective
- Clients did not cause their problems AND they need to solve them
