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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Mar 12
DBT Family Support
For parents, spouses, siblings, adult children, and anyone who loves someone with symptoms of BPD or NPD. May I be present, centered, and...
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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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Aug 10, 2023
SUISENSOR
Artificial Intelligence that Identifies Suicide Risk as Accurately as Trained Clinicians Siddhu Pachipala, a high school senior, is a...
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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 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 3, 2023
What makes this DBT Family Workshop so special?
A few people have asked me how my workshop differs from others out there. I love to meet informed persons who research the options that...
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Jan 24, 2023
Is your best attempt at validation getting thrown back in your face?
Maybe you are not really an emotionally connected kind of person. You have no idea what your loved-one is feeling and they don't either....
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Jan 5, 2023
Are you feeling STRESSED?
Maybe you are more like frozen in fear, suffocating in humiliation, or exploding with rage? How can you possibly RELIEVE and even SOOTHE...
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Dec 15, 2022
Family Resources for Talking about Suicide
When Marsha Linehan, PhD, developed Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) in the 1980s, she originally intended it to be used for treating...
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Dec 15, 2022
But I tried to help!
Emotional Activation Escalates Invalidation Invalidation Escalates Emotional Activation When the transactional nature of invalidation and...
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Nov 3, 2022
Attention and Mental Health
"Few things affect our lives more than our faculty of attention. If we can't focus our attention - due to either agitation or dullness -...
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Oct 11, 2022
Are you "enabling" those angry verbal attacks against you?
No, I am not blaming the victim here. People are fully accountable for their own actions and anyone who screams, shouts, blames, swears,...
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Oct 11, 2022
DBT 12-Week Family Workshops
Do you have a son or daughter or other loved one who is emotionally volatile and blaming you for all their problems? Perhaps they are...
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Sep 12, 2022
Radical Acceptance
is not helplessness, hopelessness, or lack of change. Denial: "I can do 99 things just the way my wife says she wants them, and if the...
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