In another thread, cognitive behavior therapy was mentioned. I've also heard of dialectical behavior therapy and know that it was designed specifically for individuals with borderline personality disorder. Does anyone know any more about the difference between these two and what exactly they entail?
Posted by MrSquicky (Member # 1802) on :
CBT is a broad class of "talking" therapies stemming largely from the work of therapist Albert Ellis (and the work on depression by Aaron T. Beck).
Ellis started out calling his system Rational Emotive Therapy, as it centered around integrating cognitive (or rational) evaluation, decision making, and control into a person's emotional states and experience. Ellis believed that most mental problems stemmed from irrational thinking leading to poor emotional states. He taught his clients to recognize and dispute their negative, irrational thoughts. The behavioral aspect (it became known as Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy) came about as Ellis folded in making definite behavioral changes to go along with the cognitive strategies.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is any sort of therapy that works along these lines. I don't really know that much about Dialectical Behavior Therapy. From what I remember from Abnormal Psych, I think it was Margaret Lineham developed it on a CBT model to deal with borderline personality disorder. Other than that, I couldn't really tell you.