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Video Resources to Help You Better Understand the Effectiveness of DBT Coaching
An overview of DBT and why it can work for you even if you are not suicidal or have BPD (40mins)
Marsha Linehan, creator of the highly-regarded Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), discusses her trans-diagnostic modular behavioral intervention that integrates principles of behavioral science with those of Zen mindfulness practice to provide a synthesis of change and acceptance. UW Professor Marsha Linehan discusses how this behavioral intervention is one of the few treatments that has been replicated as effective for reducing risk of suicide and what to expect from the future of DBT.
DBT
Marsha Linehan, creator of the highly-regarded Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), discusses why DBT treatment works for everyone.
Escape Behaviors
Marsha Linehan, creator of the highly-regarded Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), discusses escape behaviours.
Emotions
Marsha Linehan, creator of the highly-regarded Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), discusses the function of emotions.
Mindfulness
Marsha Linehan, creator of the highly-regarded Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), discusses Mindfulness skills.
Emotion Regulation
Marsha Linehan, creator of the highly-regarded Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), discusses skills that help regulate the physiology, experience, and actions associated with emotions.
Avoiding Sadness
Marsha Linehan, creator of the highly-regarded Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), discusses the importance of facing sadness instead of avoiding it.
Why DBT Coaching
Dialectical behavior therapy is a type of cognitive behavioral therapy that is based on a balance between acceptance of where a person is right now together with the need to push for change to help the person get to where they want to be in life.
The skills training and treatment model of DBT is applicable to a wide variety of individuals (living with or without serious mental health conditions) and has been clinically proven to improve well-being, attention to the present moment, and increasing positive emotional experiences while decreasing negative emotions and distress.
This is why people with depression, bipolar, anxiety, stress, dysfunctional relationships, eating disorders, and other mental health conditions may benefit from the skills gained from coaching using DBT skills training.
What It Can Help With
- DEPRESSION: DBT empowers people with depression to add positive emotional experiences to their lives in order to have better relationships and experience more joy. DBT includes evidence-based behavior activation skills to give people concrete tools to use when feeling depressed. By knowing what works, people with depression can take charge of their lives and do what they need to feel better.
- ANXIETY: DBT aids with learning how to live in the present moment and to observe, alter the intensity of, and change feeling states. People with anxiety benefit from being able to tolerate intense feelings and modify behaviors in order to create new emotional experiences. Mindfulness skills in DBT give people with anxiety the tools to set aside worries about the past or future in order to address what is happening in their lives right now.
- ADDICTIONS: DBT provides skills for tolerating distress in people with addictions such as alcohol and other drugs, gambling, sex, shopping, and more. The skills are based on a philosophy of dialectical abstinence, which uses the understanding that harm reduction and abstinence are both important and can coexist on an individual’s path to recovery.
- EATING DISORDERS: DBT helps with learning how to regulate intense emotions and to pick up on trigger emotions that lead to behaviors that cause problems. DBT views food restriction and binging and purging as attempts to manage painful feelings. The skills training component of DBT offers new skills to regulate these difficult feelings.
- LIFE SATISFACTION: DBT provides invaluable skills that help individuals connect with their emotions and discover what it is that makes them happy, and how to effectively achieve their desired goals.