Premium
Applications of dialectical behavior therapy to the treatment of complex trauma‐related problems: When one case formulation does not fit all
Author(s) -
Wagner Amy W.,
Rizvi Shireen L.,
Harned Melanie S.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of traumatic stress
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.259
H-Index - 134
eISSN - 1573-6598
pISSN - 0894-9867
DOI - 10.1002/jts.20268
Subject(s) - nomothetic and idiographic , psychotherapist , dialectical behavior therapy , dialectic , perspective (graphical) , psychology , clinical psychology , cognitive psychology , epistemology , borderline personality disorder , social psychology , computer science , artificial intelligence , philosophy
In this article, the authors take the perspective that effective treatment of complex trauma‐related problems requires, in the absence of empirically supported treatments, a reliance on theory, idiographic assessment, and empirically supported principles of change. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT; M. M. Linehan, 1993) is used to demonstrate the applicability of this approach to the treatment of multiproblem, heterogeneous populations in general. Two case studies are presented that highlight the utility of DBT principles to complex trauma‐related problems specifically.