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Title card reading Running a Skills Group, a dialectical behavior therapy article for therapists

How to Run a DBT Skills Group in Private Practice

Running a skills group in a solo practice is realistic. Calling it DBT is where clinicians get into trouble — so that's where this starts.

How to Run a DBT Skills Group in Private Practice

Running a skills group in a solo practice is realistic. Calling it DBT is where clinicians get into trouble — so that's where this starts.

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Title card reading Check the Facts, a dialectical behavior therapy article for clients

Check the Facts: The DBT Skill for When Your Emotion Doesn't Fit

This skill doesn't say your feelings are wrong. Emotions that fit the facts are supposed to be there. It's a check, not a verdict.

Check the Facts: The DBT Skill for When Your Emotion Doesn't Fit

This skill doesn't say your feelings are wrong. Emotions that fit the facts are supposed to be there. It's a check, not a verdict.

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Title card reading Socratic Questioning, a cognitive behavioral therapy article for therapists

Socratic Questioning in CBT: 6 Question Types (With Scripts You Can Use in Session)

If you already know the answer you want and you're asking questions until the client says it, that's persuasion with a question mark on the end. Clients feel it.

Socratic Questioning in CBT: 6 Question Types (With Scripts You Can Use in Session)

If you already know the answer you want and you're asking questions until the client says it, that's persuasion with a question mark on the end. Clients...

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Title card reading Core Beliefs, a schema therapy article for clients

Core Beliefs: Why the Same Thought Keeps Coming Back

Challenging individual thoughts can help for a week and then stop working. That's usually because you're pruning branches while the root stays.

Core Beliefs: Why the Same Thought Keeps Coming Back

Challenging individual thoughts can help for a week and then stop working. That's usually because you're pruning branches while the root stays.

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Working With Family Estrangement Without Taking a Side

Affirming the cutoff skips the ambivalence that brought them in. Nudging toward repair tells them their judgment about their own family can't be trusted. The work asks for a third...

Working With Family Estrangement Without Taking a Side

Affirming the cutoff skips the ambivalence that brought them in. Nudging toward repair tells them their judgment about their own family can't be trusted. The work asks...

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Title card reading The Friendship Recession, an interpersonal therapy article for clients

The Friendship Recession: Why Adult Friendship Got Harder

49% of Americans now report three or fewer close friends, up from 27% in 1990. The reasons are more structural than personal.

The Friendship Recession: Why Adult Friendship Got Harder

49% of Americans now report three or fewer close friends, up from 27% in 1990. The reasons are more structural than personal.

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