Dialectical Behavior Therapy - Family Skills Training

Over the past three decades, family interventions have become important components of treatment for a number of psychiatric disorders. To date, however, there has been no family treatment designed specifically for borderline personality disorder patients and their relatives. This article describes o...

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Published inFamily process Vol. 38; no. 4; pp. 399 - 414
Main Authors HOFFMAN, PERRY D., FRUZZETTI, ALAN, SWENSON, CHARLES
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 1999
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Summary:Over the past three decades, family interventions have become important components of treatment for a number of psychiatric disorders. To date, however, there has been no family treatment designed specifically for borderline personality disorder patients and their relatives. This article describes one short‐term family intervention called Dialectical Behavior Therapy‐Family Skills Training. Based on Linehan's Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), borderline patients' behavioral patterns are thought to result from a lifelong transaction between emotional vulnerability and invalidating features of the social and familial environment. Individual DBT focuses on reducing individual emotion dysregulation and vulnerability and enhancing individual stability. The complementary family interventions proposed in this article aim to: 1) provide all family members an understanding of borderline behavioral patterns in a clear, nonjudgmental way; 2) enhance the contributions of all family members to a mutually validating environment; and 3) address all family members' emotion regulation and interpersonal skills deficits.
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ISSN:0014-7370
1545-5300
DOI:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1999.00399.x