What Is DBT Beyond the Basics?
Key Points
- Starting clients off with DBT basics provides a foundation of understanding and skills.
- Increases the probability of clients being effective and promotes sustainable change in their lives.
- There’s more than one way to teach skills. Make them alive and interactive.
- A “right” way to conduct therapy is about effectiveness.
- Find ways for our clients to understand what we’re teaching and apply it to their lives.
- Teach through contextual learning.
- Present the material with real-life examples and use reflective communication.
- Ensure that clients have understood what we’ve talked about.
- Clinicians aren’t the experts in the room; the client is the expert.
- Consult the client on their experience, what they’re doing, and how they’re doing it.
- Engage clients when talking about change and teaching skills, and involve them in different forms of communication.
- We’re working with clients, not trying to do therapy to them.
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