PSY343H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Marsha M. Linehan, Biosocial Theory, Family Therapy
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Conceived by marsha linehan to treat parasuicidal behavior. Became approach to work with borderline personality disorder. Tension between client acceptance and need for change. Dialectics: dialectical standpoint, holistic perspective context is critical, reality is fluid, composed of opposing forces, the synthesis of which creates a new (functional) set of opposing forces, helping client change versus helping with self acceptance. Emotion regulation: healthy emotion regulation leads to adaptive behavior instead of extreme shifts. Biosocial theory of development: bpd caused by failure of emotion regulation system and dysfunctional environment. Ability to deal with emotion is biologically based (linehan, 2015: children born with different sensitivities to emotion, childhood experience is important, need for validation from parental figures. Healthy do not have specific vulnerabilities to emotion, able to regulate them. Dysfunction due to emotional vulnerability and invalidating rearing environment: emotional dysregulation inability to adaptively process and respond to emotion (neacsiu et al. , 2012) Structured clinical interview for dsm-v/diagnostic interview for borderlines.
