Balancing Validation and Radical Genuineness in DBT
Key Points
- Balancing validation and inquiry in therapy allows for genuine connection and validation while exploring challenging and validating hypotheses, promoting radical genuineness, and avoiding therapist-y interactions.
- Addressing therapy-interfering behavior involves understanding the client’s thought process and contingencies that influenced their failure to reach out for phone coaching without jumping to negative conclusions.
- Building a new association between distress and the thought to call, through repeated conversations and role-playing, can help the client develop the inclination to reach out for support.
