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Case Study Of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

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During the assessment, Monica reported anxiety regarding not being able to manage interpersonal conflict, possibly being dismissed from school and displaying inappropriate anger toward others. Monica recognizes there are some things she must work on, but is unable to make the connection as to how her cultural beliefs have impacted how she responds to others. In her earlier years of high school, she presented signs of inappropriate anger and frantic fears of abandonment, but she was encouraged to internalize her feelings and not to discuss them with anyone. Also, she learned early on in life that strong women handle their emotions and do not display outward signs of weakness. The previous trauma of being in a household that dismissed her feelings losing her mother to cancer and dealing with an absent father reinforced her feelings of abandonment, fear and inadequacy. Observational learning consists of learning and reproducing the behavior in the expectation that the person will receive …show more content…

DBT is empirically supported and is one the most effective therapeutic approaches used to treat BPD (Sandage, Long, Moen, Jankowski, Worthington, Wade, & Rye, 2015). DBT address the emotions and behaviors that are interfering with the client’s quality of life. This treatment approach allows the therapist to employ therapeutic techniques that reinforce validation while balancing acceptance and change (Cooper & Granucci Lessor, 2015). A potential barrier the writer identified is the stigmatization and marginalization within the mental health care systems in regards to treating a personality disorder. The following barriers can affect the client’s access to treatment (Kellet, Bennett, Ryle & Thake, 2011). The next section of this paper provides a treatment plan for

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