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COSIG Co-Occurring Disorders Conference, Hershey PA, May 15-17, 2006
Goal of DBT
“Is to work in collaboration with the
person to remove barriers and identify
ways to create a life worth living.”
LEMONS TO LEMONADE
If life gives you lemons
DBT helps you find a way to make lemonade
DBT validates that nobody chooses to have a life
of lemons
(Linehan, 1993)
DSM-IV-TR
Diagnostic Criteria for
301.83 Borderline Personality Disorder:
FRANTIC EFFORTS TO AVOID REAL
OR IMAGINED ABANDONMENT
• A pervasive pattern of instability of
interpersonal relationships, self-image, and
affects, and marked impulsivity beginning by
early adulthood and present in a variety of
contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the
following:
A PATTERN OF UNSTABLE AND
INTENSE INTERPERSONAL
RELATIONSHIPS
IDENTITY DISTURBANCE OR
PROBLEMS WITH SELF-IMAGE OR
SENSE OF SELF
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