A 30-year-old woman with borderline personality disorder undergoes a structured psychotherapy that includes skills training in four modules: mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, emotion regulation, and distress tolerance. She also has individual therapy sessions and access to telephone coaching. This describes:
- A Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) ✓
- B Mentalization-Based Therapy (MBT)
- C Schema-Focused Therapy
- D Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP)
Explanation
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), developed by Marsha Linehan specifically for Borderline Personality Disorder, is structured around four skill modules: mindfulness (core), interpersonal effectiveness, emotion regulation, and distress tolerance. The 'dialectical' framework balances acceptance and change. It uniquely includes telephone coaching between sessions for crisis management. DBT is the only psychotherapy with Level-I evidence for reducing self-harm and suicidality in BPD. MBT focuses on mentalizing capacity; TFP uses transference interpretations; Schema therapy targets early maladaptive schemas.
Reference: Kaplan & Sadock's Synopsis of Psychiatry, 11th ed.
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