psych 401 unit 3 UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
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Describe the biosocial theory behind Borderline - Borderline personality disorder arises from transactional, no-blame
personality symptoms and emotion dysregulation. interaction between biological emotional vulnerability and an invalidating
environment
Understand Linehan's background. - diagnosed as schizophrenic
- frequently attacked herself, burnt her wrists with cigs, cut her arms, banged
head
- One night while praying, realized she loved herself and came up with
importance of radical acceptance and commitment to change
List symptoms of BPD - instability in interpersonal relationships
- emotional instability
- chronic feelings or emptiness
- suicidal behaviors
The dialectics - acceptance vs. change - The need for validating a client's current reality with the necessity of changing
harmful behaviors.
Describe the goals of DBT - to help individuals build a "life worth living" by balancing emotional
acceptance with behavioral change.
Detail assessment techniques used in DBT - Diary card: Assess strong feelings or behaviors during the week
Differentiate between the components of a full DBT - Individual therapy: 1 on 1 for motivation/application
program (e.g., individual therapy, groups skills training,
Phone call skills coaching, counselor case consultation) -Group skills training: weekly class like setting
- phone skills coaching: real time in the moment support
- therapist consultation: provider support
Describe the humanistic-like assumptions therapist and - assumes that clients are doing there best, want to improve, and need to do
clients have about clients/themselves in DBT treatment. better/try harder, mirroing humanistic, non-judgmental acceptance and
alongside a drive for growth
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Describe the biosocial theory behind Borderline - Borderline personality disorder arises from transactional, no-blame
personality symptoms and emotion dysregulation. interaction between biological emotional vulnerability and an invalidating
environment
Understand Linehan's background. - diagnosed as schizophrenic
- frequently attacked herself, burnt her wrists with cigs, cut her arms, banged
head
- One night while praying, realized she loved herself and came up with
importance of radical acceptance and commitment to change
List symptoms of BPD - instability in interpersonal relationships
- emotional instability
- chronic feelings or emptiness
- suicidal behaviors
The dialectics - acceptance vs. change - The need for validating a client's current reality with the necessity of changing
harmful behaviors.
Describe the goals of DBT - to help individuals build a "life worth living" by balancing emotional
acceptance with behavioral change.
Detail assessment techniques used in DBT - Diary card: Assess strong feelings or behaviors during the week
Differentiate between the components of a full DBT - Individual therapy: 1 on 1 for motivation/application
program (e.g., individual therapy, groups skills training,
Phone call skills coaching, counselor case consultation) -Group skills training: weekly class like setting
- phone skills coaching: real time in the moment support
- therapist consultation: provider support
Describe the humanistic-like assumptions therapist and - assumes that clients are doing there best, want to improve, and need to do
clients have about clients/themselves in DBT treatment. better/try harder, mirroing humanistic, non-judgmental acceptance and
alongside a drive for growth
