Women’s Eating Disorder DBT Group: Overcoming Eating Disorders with Dialectical Behavior Therapy

In this group you will learn new and healthy ways to overcome the distressing feelings and negative body-image beliefs that keep you trapped in the cycle of eating and purging. Learn and begin using mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness the right away to manage your eating disorder. Take charge of your emotions and end your dependence on food. Start coping with uncomfortable feelings in healthy ways and empower yourself to feel good about nourishing your body, and finally gain true control over your life.

Weekly Group Sessions – $30 per session

DBT skills that will be learned:

• Developing and applying methods for coping with negative emotions
• Being aware of bodily responses associated with negative emotions
• Learning to fully embrace and experience thoughts and emotions

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History and Research of DBT for Eating Issues

DBT was developed by psychologist Marsha Linehan, PhD, to adapt cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) to treat people with chronic suicidality and urges for self-harm, many of whom also had borderline personality disorder (BPD). DBT has since been adapted in several ways for people with eating disorders who, like those with BPD, may have difficulty regulating their emotions. It’s been used as a treatment for the complex cases of eating disorders described above and also in a modified form for less complicated cases in which other first-line approaches alone have been unsuccessful. Dialectical Behavior Therapy is the primary mode of therapy used in most hospitals, clinics, and outpatient and inpatient therapeutic setting throughout the nation. Research suggests that DBT effectively treats eating disorders.

What is Dialectic?

A dialectic means two seemingly opposite ideas can be true at the same time. It’s the concept that even if you binge and purge one day does not mean that you are a total failure and you are continuing to work on you recovery. The core assumption of DBT is that clients are doing the best they can to cope and they can do better. This is how DBT focuses both on acceptance and change strategies.

Eating disorder behaviors are often individuals’ best efforts to care for themselves, it’s how they have managed to get on with their day due to certain circumstances. Although eating disorder behaviors are destructive, these behaviors can also be calming, distracting, freeing, and pleasurable. DBT is a tool with which patients can learn other more beneficial ways to comfort themselves, relax, and feel more pleasure. Dialectical Behavioral Therapy connects cognitive and behavioral therapies as a way of people learn and adapt healthier methods of coping with painful emotions, often through acceptance and change. The basic theory of this psychotherapy approach focuses on individuals who are prone to reacting in a more extreme and out-of-the ordinary approach towards emotional circumstances. DBT techniques equip eating disorder sufferers with methods for identifying triggers and improving responses to stress, such as engaging in breathing and relaxation exercises, and applying mindful eating.

Four Essential Components of DBT

1. Mindfulness: Observation, description, and participation are the fundamental mindfulness skills.
2. Interpersonal Effectiveness: Includes effective methods for asking for what one needs, saying no, and strategies for dealing with interpersonal conflict.
3. Distress Tolerance: Ccrisis endurance strategies are taught: distracting, self-soothing, improving the moment, and consideration of pros and cons.
4. Emotion Regulation: Includes strategies for recognizing and labeling emotions, identifying barriers to changing emotions, and increasing positive emotional events.

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