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Do Dialectical Behavior Therapy-Based Interventions Decrease Adolescent Externalizing Symptoms? A Meta-Analysis

Society of Clinical Psychology

2019), only a minority of youth with these difficulties receive interventions with strong research support (McCart & Sheidow, 2016). Despite DBT’s focus on changing thoughts and behaviors that precede and relate to interpersonal conflict, externalizing problems are rarely examined as a primary aim in DBT-based intervention studies.

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Diversity Spotlight: Sannisha K. Dale, PhD

Society of Clinical Psychology

In dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), there’s an exercise where people write a letter or their own eulogy, envisioning what they would want others to say about them at the end of their life. The more we focus on those moments, the easier it becomes to gravitate toward activities that align with our purpose.

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Clinicians and Clients Disagree: Implications for Evidence-Based Practice

Society of Clinical Psychology

This effort to develop and test interventions that offer demonstrable improvement in Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) has yielded a lengthy list of Empirically Supported Treatments that can inform an EBP ( [link] ). Yet in nearly all of these RCTs, the clients have been carefully diagnosed with a semi-structured interview.

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