Posted by Dinah on November 29, 2003, at 13:46:51
In reply to Re: Anyone still interested in a DBT thread? » Dinah, posted by crushedout on November 29, 2003, at 13:08:05
"Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder"
"Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder"
http://www.brtc.psych.washington.edu/DBT.htmhttp://www.growingstrong.org/mental/dbt.html
Here are a few links. As I understand it, it's cognitive behavior therapy mixed with Zen acceptance. The dialectic is between acceptance and change.
Linehan seems to have a scientific bend of mind and has done a lot of outcome studies on DBT. The bad news is that there doesn't seem to be a huge improvement in subjective feelings of depression, etc. The good news is that clients seem to cope better, with fewer dysfunctional coping mechanisms.
I'm reserving judgement until I get into it more deeply. So far, I've read the manual, but have never managed to be more disciplined in applying it for more than a week or so at a time. :)
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