Kitt O’Malley

Tag: DBT

  • Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)

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    The idea behind DBT, which I have never done as a therapist nor as a patient until I attended NAMI Peer-to-Peer Recovery Education Program ©, is to hold opposing ideas together to learn acceptance and more nuanced thinking as opposed to black and white thinking. Marsha Linehan, PhD developed DBT. According to The Linehan Institute: The…

  • NAMI Week Five

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    At the end of week five of NAMI’s Peer-to-Peer training, we learned the concept behind Dialectical Behavior Therapy or DBT. To begin seeing the world in less black and white terms and to learn to hold and accept uncomfortable and opposing feelings, we made dialectical statements describing two roses in opposing terms. My two roses here are both…