PSY 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Comorbidity
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Parenting factors led to very poor emotion regulation skills. Extreme emotional responses paired with deficits in emotion-regulation skills. Don"t know how to ask for help so become manipulative. Dialectical behavior therapy is the most promising psychosocial approach. Behaviors that impact the client"s quality of life. Blend of behavior therapy with cognitive, interpersonal and psychodynamic techniques. Develop more adaptive emotion-regulation and problem-solving skills. Develop more realistic and positive sense of self. Learn to monitor negative and black/white thinking and challenge these thoughts. Need to be the center of attention. Similar to borderline bc manipulative and emotional, but these have better relationships and sense of identity. Pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, arrogance. Belittle the input of other group members. Almost everyone likes admiration, but they need an elevated amount. Often expect to be catered to by others. E. g. might assume they don"t have to wait in line. If people knew the real" me, they would reject me .