A Brief Introduction to Radically Open DBT (RO DBT) and case vignette

Part 1: is the presentation of slides outlining the case vignette where straight DBT has not been a good fit and the client is excited about information available about this alternative approach which seems a better fit.

Part 2: starts at about the minute mark. Tanya Gilmartin introduces the key underlying principles of RO-DBT and outline some of the research behind the treatment, as well as explain how to conceptualise clients from an RO-DBT perspective.

An evidence-based approach to "overcontrol" in a spectrum of disorders such as depression, anorexia, obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, severe anxiety, perfectionism, autism, etc.

RO DBT significantly differs from other treatment approaches, most notably by linking the communicative functions of emotional expression to the formation of close social bonds and via skills targeting social-signaling and changing neurophysiological arousal. RO DBT treatment centers around five OC themes: inhibited and disingenuous emotional expression; hyper-detailed focused and overly cautious behavior; rigid and rule-governed behavior; aloof and distant style of relating; and high social comparison and envy/bitterness.

Psychological health or well-being in RO DBT is hypothesized to involve three core transacting features:



1. Receptivity and Openness to new experience and disconfirming feedback in order to learn.

2. Flexible-control in order to adapt to changing environmental conditions.

3. Intimacy and social-connectedness (with at least one other person) based on premises that species survival required capacities to form long-lasting bonds and work in groups or tribes.

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