DBT & RO-DBT

DBT

CORE PROBLEM

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• Emotion dysregulation, poor impulse control

• One has anxious attachment style

RO-DBT

CORE PROBLEM

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• Social signaling deficits, low openness, and aloofness

• One has avoidant attachment style

DBT

TEACHES

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How to avoid conflict, be more organized, restrain impulses, delay gratification and tolerate distress (skills already over learned or engaged in compulsively by most OC individuals)

RO-DBT

TEACHES

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Clients to increase openness, flexible responding, enhance social connectedness, and vulnerable expression of emotion

• Social Signaling: How you are saying things without actually saying them.

• Your Social Safety System: The biological reasons why you struggle to let go.

• Emotional loneliness: Why you rarely (if ever!) feel truly connected to others.

• Radical Openness: How staying safe can be dangerous.

• Coping Style: How your way of responding to stress may not all that it seems from the outside.

DBT

EMPHASIZES & PRIORITIZES RADICAL ACCEPTANCE

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Radical Acceptance is “letting go of fighting reality”

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“It is the way to turn suffering that cannot be tolerated into pain that can be tolerated” (Linehan 1993).

RO-DBT

EMPHASIZES & PRIORITIZES RADICAL OPENNESS

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Radical Openness is actively seeking the things one wants to avoid in order to learn—challenging our perceptions of reality, modelling humility, and a willingness to learn

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“We don’t see things as they are—we see things as we are” (Lynch 2017).