This feature by Alexander Chapman, PhD, R.Psych is Part 2 of 2 in a series about emotion regulation. In this part, Alex shares how validation and radical acceptance play a role in his nightly family dinner experience.
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This feature by Alexander Chapman, PhD, R.Psych is Part 1 of 2 in a series about emotion regulation. In this first part, Alex begins his narrative about DBT emotion regulation skills use in the context of family dinners in his household.
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This feature by Fragiskos Gonidakis is Part 2 of 2 in a series about the experience of a therapist in Greece during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the first part, Fragiskos explored what happened pre-quarantine. Now, in part 2, Fragiskos discusses the quarantine and the initial experience of returning from quarantine.
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This feature by Fragiskos Gonidakis is Part 1 of 2 in a series about the experience of a therapist in Greece during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this first part, Fragiskos explores what happened pre-quarantine.
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This feature by Randy Wolbert is the second part in his two-part series about the practice of mindfulness. Part 1 discussed the value of incorporating mindful practicing into your life, and in this part Randy addresses how to get started.
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This feature by Randy Wolbert is the first part in a two-part series about the practice of mindfulness. At a time when New Year’s resolutions are a top focus, this part 1 discusses the value of incorporating mindful practicing into your life.
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In our research and practice, we have seen the connection between Zen mindfulness and DBT. Behavior therapy has an inherent compatibility with Zen principles. Behavioral Tech trainer and Zen teacher, Randy Wolbert, breaks down for us the seven points of overlap between Zen mindfulness and DBT and how these links came to be.
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For the first years of this century, mindfulness-based interventions generated a lot of enthusiasm from the general public and researchers alike. Research on mindfulness treatments for education, health, and mental health increased exponentially (Farias & Wikholm 2016). Recently, however, reviews of mindfulness-based interventions have re-assessed the data, especially because of small effect sizes and a lack of real control conditions (Farias & Wikhom 2016). A serious, methodological problem common to most of the studies is the lack of a standard operational definition for mindfulness (Lutz 2015).
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