DBT Basics: The Role of Change

This is the end of module one, client orientation on sustainable change, and here are the take-home messages.

So if we summarize this entire thing with some take-home messages, sustainable change is hard and it takes time. It starts with acceptance, and even chaos, and things that can be viewed as being unpredictable.

If we unpack it and separate some emotionality from it, we can find through models, understanding, or space and time, that as human beings we’re extremely complicated but oftentimes we’re very predictable. Now, maybe not short-term but long-term, there is predictability in patterns that we fall into.