DBT Assumptions about Glients

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Clients are doing the best they can. (Linehan, M. (1993), Cognitive-Behavioral
Treatment of Borderline Personalitv Disorder. New York: Cuilford Press. 106)
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Clients want to improve. (106)
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Clients must learn new behaviors in all relevant contexts. (107)
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Clients cannot fail in DBT. (108)
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Clients may not have caused all of their own problems, but they have to solve
them anyway. (107)
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Clients need to do better, try harder, and/or be more motivated to change. (106-
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The lives of suicidal, borderline individuals are unbearable as they are currently
being lived. (107)
O 2002-2008 Marsha M. Linehan, Ph.D., ABPP o University of Washington
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