Talk:Dialectical behavioral therapy

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Please keep DBT in Wikipedia. I have been a part of a DBT group for over 2 years although it has been disbanded now. My son was suicidal with serious self-harm at 17. Was able to do DBT through County Mental Health. Was tested to see if he qualified for it. I do know it is recommended to be sucessful in helping, a commitment of 6 months to go through Linehan's book and another 6 months to go through it again. My son had to commit to 1 year skills training, keeping a diary, meeting one on one and in a group. I also have attended "NAMI" meeting where DBT was mentioned as helping family members who were diagnosed borderline or were suicidal or self-harming. I read an article but unfortunately do not have the reference, of DBT being used in prison setting for those inmates diagnosed with borderline personality and was helpful. I have been in counseling off and on for 40 years, since first panic attack in college. No med or therapy helped me or continues to like DBT. Its 4 components of distress tolerance, mindfulness, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness are a lifestyle for creating a "life worth living". To me its premise is we can all learn "skills" to help ourselves even if we do not possess them intuitively as some might. It is full of help and compassion for self accepting where you are in level of skills and continuing to always get better and healthier. there is no end to trying to be a better person or to learn "self-soothing" skills or any lack of skills that cause pain in your life. I would be glad to help on this subject in anyway I can. I discovered this therapy in trying to help my son but has helped my diagnosis of "dysthimia" and anxiety as well as adult ADD. I am not nor never been suicidal or self-harming yet I never could shake the depression and struggled to cope with anxiety. I have been very functional as far as keeping a job but my relationships were always painful. 2 divorces. I still struggle with the 4 areas focused on in DBT but continue to work on them on my own and wish I still had a group to bounce my trials and errors off during the week. It's amazing how much help others who are learning skills can help each other. Carolejolly (talk) 01:32, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Should we be keeping this her or rename it Dialectical Behavioral Therapy? I'd vote to move it; though most just refer to this as "DBT", whenever it's referred to in full, it's behaviorAL, to match "Behavioral Health". siafu 20:45, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

We should move it to be under its proper name, and have this name re-direct to it. I don't know how to do that, but I'll figure it out ... Scot →Talk 19:58, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy or Dialectical behavioral therapy? The second is correct per WP:MOS unless there is a reason for the caps. You should be able to move to either now, and set redirects as desired. KillerChihuahua?!? 14:19, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Current capitalisation seems fine. —Nightstallion (?) Seen this already? 07:58, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

The correct name is Dialectical Behavior Therapy, not Dialectical Behavioral Therapy. This is how Linehan refers to it. See http://faculty.washington.edu/linehan/ 20:40, 14 October 2006

With reference to the possible deletion, i'd have thought that its prevelance within the NHS alone marks it as worthy of an entry- with a bit more time i can collect some references to support this (Hampshire NHS would be a good starting point)

I'm kind of shocked that this entry would be up for deletion. It's used all over the place. I doubt youd run into a therapist who isn't familiar with what it is. i found this article useful for learning what it was before I started doing it and I'd hate to see it gone for other people to not be able to use Lyo 15:29, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Apparently whoever added the template didn't bother to investigate the matter at all. A simple search on Amazon.com yields 246 books with DBT in the title. Having not read them, I can't add them as refs, but it should be obvious that this is a notable topic. siafu 15:40, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

This article bears importance in that DBT is becoming the preferred treatment model for Borderline personality disorder and is also proving effective in treating many other disorders including eating disorders. To delete it would be wrong. Almost any article you might find on Borderline personality disorder that was written recently at least mentions DBT and people need to know what it is.

[edit] graphs and logs

i was wondering if there are graphs and logs that are printable for to maintain my mood swings. it has been approximately 2 and half years since i have been in a dbt group. we had a weekly report sheet and a graph for wise mind that we kept with us. can you prvide me this information.

Within the next month I will try to get a diary card example on Wikibooks. :)68.22.19.194 17:00, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
Here's a good example. http://www.dbtselfhelp.com/html/diary_card_1.html --68.22.19.194 20:00, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mass removal

Normally I would bring my concerns here first, then remove after discussion. However, considering it's a copyvio, I removed the sections of quoted text. We can't do that. We have to write the information ourselves and cite the sources. Not just take what they've written and copy it over with a link. Lara❤Love 05:49, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Article says there are four (4) modules, then lists only three (3)

The article includes a major headline that boldly announces

"The four modules."

Since it then lists 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3 ... and stops right there.

The reader is left wondering what happened to 1.4? Will someone who knows please add 1.4 and tell us about the fourth module.