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"Diabolical" Behavior Therapy

How to Explain Dialectics to Our Clients

Lane Pederson, Psy.D., LP, DBTC

When clients come to DBT, oftentimes they don鈥檛 know what DBT actually stands for. It鈥檚 fun to tell them it stands for 鈥淒iabolical鈥 Behavior Therapy鈥攊t always gets a good laugh from them.

But when you tell them it actually stands for Dialectical Behavior Therapy, most clients look perplexed because they don鈥檛 know what dialectics are. In fact, most people on the street wouldn鈥檛 know how to define dialectics if you went up and asked.

In my short video, I talk about how we can explain Dialectics to our client. I鈥檝e also from my book The Expanded Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training Manual, 2nd Edition: DBT for Self-Help and Individual Group Treatment Settings. Use this worksheet with your client to help bring about dialectical balance and assist them in seeing options in their lives. Let me know what you think in the comments below.

-Lane Pederson, Psy.D., LP, DBTC


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