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Nov 21
Presence and Relationships
If you have a difficult relationship with a close family member, you might have inadvertently activated your loved one's intense...
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Nov 20
Avoid Authority or Appeasement
Both responses sustain aggressive and violent behaviors If your loved one often engages in insistent demands and impulsive behaviors, you...
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Nov 13
Worried about the holidays?
The year-end holidays can be wonderful and also sources of stress and frustration. Families share more time together. Food, rituals,...
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Oct 1
DBT therapists have a Consultation Team. Families need a Support Network.
The more you comply with demands for isolation and secrecy, the more reclusive and volatile your loved one becomes. Before you know it, your
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Mar 17
The “Bathroom Break”
Start small when it comes to reducing verbal attacks against you or not contributing to an escalating emotional crisis. The bathroom...
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Nov 26, 2023
Strategies for parents of high-anxiety youth who are failing to launch into adulthood
"The phenomenon of highly dependent adult children who are not actively engaged in productive occupational, educational, or vocational...
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Sep 9, 2023
ER: Emotional Regulation Intro
Arguably one of the most important life skills in DBT! Emotional regulation includes a whole set of skills and which we choose depends...
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Sep 9, 2023
ER1: Check the Facts
Does the emotion fit the facts? Emotions can trigger thoughts and interpretations about events and they can distort our perception, which...
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Sep 9, 2023
ER3: Problem Solving
If we can change the emotion by solving the problem, then first solve the problem! Problem solving is an emotional regulation strategy...
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Sep 9, 2023
ER 2: Opposite Action
Opposite action is more than a skill. It is a philosophy of life. Like dialectics or radical acceptance or mindfulness, this is a DBT...
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Sep 9, 2023
ER4: EMOTIONAL REGULATION: Which strategy to use
Now we have three strategies for regulating emotions: Checking the Facts, Opposite Action, and Problem Solving, (not to mention...
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Aug 3, 2023
The Slow Drip
A slow drip can dissolve rock, cut mountains in half, and reshape the planet. Can it cut through the stonewalling of your stubborn love...
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Jul 27, 2023
Trying to regain control over your own reaction to your emotionally reactive family member?
That is where reducing conflict begins! Do you feel like a deer in the headlights in front of your reactive husband? Does your son or...
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May 23, 2023
Mentalization Impairments
What is mentalizing? Good mentalizing is inquiring deeply into understanding the mental experiences of self or other. It is trying to...
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May 9, 2023
Even better than therapy: Wiser Minds!
(But let's not give up the goal of getting your loved one into treatment!) Reviews of psychotherapy treatment outcome studies show that:...
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May 9, 2023
Is it BPD or Narcisism or Anti-social or…?
It seems there is not much difference! If you look at the “DSM-5” (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) you know that...
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Mar 18, 2023
Transactional Model of Emotional Dysregulation
by Corrine Stoewsand When an individual is emotionally sensitive and volatile, the people who are closest - family members, partners, and...
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Feb 9, 2023
Healthy Self-Doubt
FAMILIES! If you have a loved one who needs to be right, who is intolerant of different perspectives, who is often rigid and wants to...
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Feb 8, 2023
MYTHS About Suicide
MYTH: You CAN’T talk about it. Talking about suicide or asking someone if they feel suicidal will encourage suicide attempts. FACT:...
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