Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a gold-standard treatment for borderline personality disorder (BPD). It’s also a “kitchen-sink” treatment with many of the most efficacious treatment components included. We’re particularly interested in which of these components are driving change for patients and if we can match those components to patients more efficiently.
Southward, M. W., Goh, P. K., & Bansal, P. S. (2023). How to align DBT and DBT skills with adolescent externalizing problems. Clinical Psychology: Science & Practice, 30(3), 264–267.
https://doi.org/10.1037/cps0000162
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🔑 Southward, M. W., Howard, K. P., & Cheavens, J. S. (2023). Less is more: Decreasing the frequency of maladaptive behaviors predicts improvements in DBT more consistently than increasing the frequency of DBT skill use. Behaviour Research & Therapy, 163, 104288.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2023.104288
📝 Open code: https://doi.org/10.17605/osf.io/98qwc
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🔑 Cheavens, J. S., Southward, M. W., Howard, K. P., Heiy, J. E., & Altenburger, E. M. (2023). Broad strokes or fine points: Are dialectical behavior therapy modules associated with general or domain-specific changes? Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, & Treatment, 14(2), 137–147. https://doi.org/10.1037/per0000557
📝 Open code: https://doi.org/10.17605/osf.io/8k4bv
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Southward, M. W., Eberle, J. W., & Neacsiu, A. D. (2022). Multilevel associations of daily skill use and effectiveness with anxiety, depression, and stress in a transdiagnostic sample undergoing dialectical behavior therapy skills training. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, 51(2), 114–129. https://doi.org/10.1080/16506073.2021.1907614
📝 Open code: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/569ey
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