Behavioral Therapy And Dialectical Behavior Therapy

Section 3: A.) There are many treatments that one with BPD can choose from. There are some therapy based treatments available, medications, and self-care activities (ex. exercise, healthy eating, stress management). The therapy based treatments include “dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), mentalization-based therapy (MBT), and transference-focused therapy (TFP)” (BPD.com, 2017). B.) A commonly used treatment for BPD is dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). DBT is a type of cognitive therapy (BPD.com, 2017). There are four different parts of DBT, individual therapy, skills training group, phone coaching (for in-the-moment coaching), and a therapist consultation team (Behavioral Tech, 2017). There are also four different behavioral skills that

Because of this, it is important for therapists to deal with the higher priority problems first. In order of priority, the first thing that should be treated is life-threatening behaviors, such as self-injury and suicidal thoughts. The second thing to be treated is therapy-interfering behaviors, such as not coming to therapy sessions or not being cooperative in towards the end goals. Then, the quality of life behaviors, such as working on relationship problems or mental disorders. Lastly, patients are given skills to help them with handling their behaviors and to reach their goals. (Behavioral Tech,

After being diagnosed, she decided to get treatment for BPD by using DBT. During the first session, the therapist introduced Kathy to emotional regulation skills, to help identify and label emotions. Particularly, she learned how to “observe and describe an event causing a certain emotion, how one interprets it, how one experience it (including autonomic nervous system response), the behaviors that express the emotion, and how it affects functioning” (Phenomenological Psychology, 2009). After Kathy was able to identify and label her emotions, the next step taken was to identify obstacles and change the emotions around them. By knowing how to change emotions around obstacles, it helps with one’s perceptions and interpretations of events in everyday life situations. The third step Kathy’s therapist used was “reducing vulnerability to “emotion mind”, and to be able to control one’s emotions” (Phenomenological Psychology, 2009). To improve in this area, Kathy decided to eat better and start singing at church again, both things she believed would make her feel good. The last step Kathy’s therapist used was increasing mindfulness to current emotions. The therapist has Kathy think of a negative experience and what she felt then. He tells her to think of the emotions she was going through during the experience and open herself up to them, don’t block them out. He then tells her to also envision positive experiences (these