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INNOVATIVE THOUGHT & PRACTICE
2. Distress Tolerance skills
address impulsivity, anxiety, tolerating re-feeding,
and using eating disorders to manage emotions. They focus on the five senses
and the client’s innate ability to self-soothe when anxious or afraid.
3. Emotional Regulation skills
address labile or flat affect and the inability to
identify emotions. The goal is to focus on improving control over emotions
and learning techniques for modulating affect. This results in improving
understanding/identifying and labeling emotions (versus hunger/fullness) and
reducing emotional vulnerability and suffering as one learns to care for the
body and soul.
4. Interpersonal Effectiveness skills
address learning how to use one’s voice in
place of eating disorder behaviors to become more socially effective. The focus
is on attending to relationships, balancing priorities vs. demands, and build-
ing self-respect. These skills address interpersonal chaos, saying no, asking for
help, passivity and aggression, negotiating conflict and staying emotionally
regulated in conflict.
Utilizing a modified form of DBT equips eating disordered people to become aware of
their avoided emotions and self-judgments… and, when incorporating biblical prin-
ciples, rely on the presence of God and a relationship with Jesus Christ to alleviate the
unnecessary suffering.
Marian C. Eberly, R.N., LCSW, BCPCC, Ph.D. (candidate),
is
a licensed therapist practicing in Phoenix, Arizona. She specializes
in eating and anxiety-related disorders and has more than 25 years’
experience. Marian is a published author and frequent AACC confer-
ence speaker.
Resources
Linehan, M. (1993).
Cognitive-behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder.
New York: The Guilford
Press.
.
Linehan, M. (1993).
Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder.
New York: The Guilford
Press.
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