They can also exhibit acceptance skills by turning the mind to accept, radical acceptance and willingness vs. willfulness.
Individuals with under this therapy are taught how to regulate their emotions. This is because most of those suffering from this disorder are known to be angry, depressed, intensely frustrated and anxious among other behaviors. The steps taught towards emotional regulation include; identification and labeling of emotions, identification of obstacles to any change of emotion, reducing of vulnerability to having an emotional mind, by having more positive emotional events, giving the patient the ability to control the current emotions and wherever a negative one presents itself he/she can take the opposite action, and lastly, he/she can apply the distress tolerance techniques taught (Heard, 2009).
Modes of Treatment
There are five clear components of treatment of DBT. They component include; individual therapy session to address and maintain the patients motivation for treatment, group skills training to increase the patient's capabilities, brief weekly phone calls to insure generalization of new skills, therapist consultation team to provide supervision and prevent burnout and lastly, administrative function to structure the environment so that effective treatment can take place (Westen, 2000).
Stages of treatment
Borderline Personality disorder being one of the conditions treated by Dialectical Behavior Therapy is more centered towards patient's egregious behaviors. Dialectical Behavior Therapy has four stages, pre-treatment stage; this stage basically deals with assessment of the patient's disorder, commitment to the treatment choice, and orientation to Dialectical Behavior Therapy (Heard, 2009).
The first one is based on reducing any present life threatening behaviors, quality of life threatening behavior and therapy-interfering behaviors and to enhance behavioral skills. The second stage revolves around improving the experience of a patient who has reached a state of desperation having managed to come through the damaging behavior which was present in stage one of the Dialectical Behavior Therapy treatments. The characteristic focus presented in this stage is the post-traumatic stress responses (McMain, 2001).
The third stage is meant to promote the patient to develop a positive attitude and a way to resolve the daily problems. Whereas the fourth stage consist of where the patient can now live in joy through his/her abilities to overcome the feeling of incompleteness.
Treatment strategies
With the different intervention measures put in place in Dialectical Behavior Therapy. The main strategies used are the validation and problem solving. These strategies tries to facilitate change by validating a patient's behavior and responses as understandable as possible while also associating it to his/her current life ordeals and which portrays an understanding of the patient's difficulty and suffering (Robins, 2001).
Problem solving strategy on the other hand majors on imparting the patient with the necessary skills for coping. In case the patient is not taking care of him/herself by taking care of the arising problems then, either he/she do not poses the necessary skills needed to solve the problem or there may be something hindering him/her to do so (Clarkin, 2007). When the patient doesn't solve his/her problem, because he/she doesn't have the skills, then this can be solved by having skills training sessions. While, in any case he/she has the skills but doesn't use them, then, that situation may be because of environmental factors or maybe cognitive or emotional problem hindering treatment. The solution to this is by contingency management, cognitive therapy, exposure based therapies and pharmacotherapy, which are used in informal way into the therapy.
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