PSYC36H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Dialectic, Impulsivity
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Don"t have the capacity to regulate those emotions. Defensive unwilling to work on things with the therapist. Biosocial model development and maintenance of bpd behave. Behavioural the way the problems are defined and assessed in this treatment. Behave are at core of interventions applied and case conceptualizations (tying in working model of disorder development) increase frequency of adaptive behave and decrease maladaptive behav. Keep them from learning to regulate those strong emotions. Generalizable used in variety of situations access to therapists number (allows them to reinforce adaptive skills outside of the therapy session) Structured tx environment; providing therapist with their own support. Get feedback from colleagues help reduce the level of burnout. Require a lot of support; draining over time. Why dialectic? (talking about 2 possible extremes of any given situation to find happy medium in between) Establish truth via discussion and reason arguents b/w extreme competing forces in reality.
