DBT Dialectical Interventions
United States Department of Homeland Security
Key Points
- One of the hallmark symptoms of PTSD is self-blame.
- Responsibility pie is an intervention to determine how much responsibility for the trauma the client attributes to people.
- Clients with high self-blame will give themselves the biggest piece of the pie.
- Interventions to reflect on assigned responsibility for the trauma include Socratic questioning, using the phrase “I am confused”, and the best friend role play.
- Interventions to model dialectics include fortunately/unfortunately, dialectical synonyms, and pros and cons.
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DBT for Trauma Online Training
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