RO-DBT for Beginners

Miles Raymond McCarthy

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. Why Standard Therapy Misses Some Clients Some clients arrive prepared, engage cooperatively, complete every task assigned to them, and make no progress. They are not resistant or unmotivated. They are...

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RO-DBT for Beginners

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Disclaimer

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Preface

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Introduction: The Client Who Got Worse

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Why Standard Therapy Misses This Client

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The Gap This Book Fills

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What This Book Covers and What It Does Not

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A Note on How to Use This Book

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Before You Read Further

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Chapter 1: What Is Overcontrol

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1.1 The Control Spectrum

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1.2 When Control Becomes the Problem

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1.3 The Student Nobody Worried About

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1.4 What Emotional Leakage Means

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1.5 The Prepared Patient

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1.6 How Overcontrol Gets Misidentified

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1.7 Perfect Homework, No Progress

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1.8 When It Doesn't Work

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1.9 The Quick Version

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Chapter 2: Where RO-DBT Came From

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2.1 Where Standard DBT Came From

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2.2 The Clinical Observation That Started Everything

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2.3 Twenty-Five Years of Research

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2.4 What Transdiagnostic Means

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2.5 From Standard DBT to RO-DBT

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2.6 The Current Status of the Model

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2.7 When It Doesn't Work

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2.8 What to Take Away

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Chapter 3: RO-DBT or DBT

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3.1 What the Two Models Share

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3.3 Different Mechanisms, Different Skills

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3.4 Two Clients, Two Models

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3.5 Why the Wrong Model Causes Problems

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3.6 When DBT Made Things Worse

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3.7 When It Doesn't Work

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3.8 Wrapping Up

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Chapter 4: What Radical Openness Is

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4.1 Not Acceptance, Something Harder

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4.2 The Three Capacities

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4.3 Self-Enquiry: The Practice Within the Practice

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4.4 A Therapist Learning Openness

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4.5 Opposite Action in RO-DBT

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4.6 One Opposite Action

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4.7 When It Doesn't Work

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4.8 The Short Answer

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Chapter 5: Why Overcontrol Happens

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5.1 Layer One: What the Biology Sets Up

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5.2 Why Thinking Cannot Override Biology

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5.3 Layer Two: What the Environment Teaches

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5.4 The High-Achievement Household

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5.5 Layer Three: The Coping Style That Sticks

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5.6 The Self-Reinforcing Loop

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5.7 The Invisible Professional

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5.8 What This Theory Implies for Treatment

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5.9 When It Doesn't Work

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5.10 Before You Move On

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Chapter 6: Who Needs RO-DBT

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6.1 The OC Spectrum

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6.2 Diagnostic Groups: Where Overcontrol Appears

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6.3 Clinical Indicators in Assessment

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6.4 The Assessment That Changed

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6.5 Who Is Not Appropriate for RO-DBT

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6.6 Common Misidentifications

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6.7 Three Assessment Scenarios

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6.8 When It Doesn't Work

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6.9 Closing Thoughts

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Chapter 7: Social Signalling Explained

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7.1 What a Signal Actually Is

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7.2 Why Signals Drive Connection

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7.3 The Invisible Joke

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7.4 How OC Signals Read to Others

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7.5 The Reinforcing Loop

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7.6 Another Real Example: The Workplace Mystery

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7.7 The Therapist as Signal Model

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7.8 When It Doesn't Work

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7.9 One More Look

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Chapter 8: The Five OC Themes

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8.1 Why Themes Not Diagnoses

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8.2 Theme One: Hidden Emotion

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8.3 Theme Two: Cautious Precision

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8.4 Theme Three: Living by Rules

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8.5 Theme Four: Distant Relating

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8.6 Theme Five: Resentment and Comparison

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8.7 One Client, Two Themes

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8.8 Finding the Dominant Theme

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8.9 When It Doesn't Work

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8.10 The Main Ideas

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Chapter 9: Inside the Full Programme

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9.1 The Shape of the Programme

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9.2 The First Four Sessions

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9.3 Week One Through Week Thirty

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9.4 The Skills Class as Social Laboratory

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9.5 The Diary Card Difference

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9.6 The Consultation Team

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9.7 What Discharge Looks Like

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9.8 When It Doesn't Work

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9.9 Where You Are Now

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Chapter 10: Mindfulness Done Differently

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10.1 What Standard Mindfulness Does

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10.2 Why Standard Mindfulness Can Backfire

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10.3 Two Exercises in Contrast

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10.4 Three Targets Not One

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10.5 Self-Enquiry as Mindfulness

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10.6 Another Real Example: Lena Finds a Different Practice

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10.7 Loving-Kindness and Warmth

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10.8 When It Doesn't Work

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10.9 Before You Read On

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Chapter 11: What the Skills Cover

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11.1 Three Domains Not Four

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11.2 Openness Skills Explained

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11.3 What Openness Looks Like in Practice

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11.4 Flexibility Skills Explained

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11.5 Social Connectedness Skills

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11.6 Another Real Example: A Day in a Skills Class

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11.7 The Curriculum Sequence

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11.8 When It Doesn't Work

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11.9 Pulling It Together

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Chapter 12: The Same Model Everywhere

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12.1 The Transdiagnostic Lens

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12.2 Anorexia and Overcontrol

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12.3 Treatment-Resistant Depression

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12.4 OCD and OCPD

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12.5 Autism Spectrum Presentations

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12.6 Another Real Example: The Five Conditions Side by Side

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12.7 Cluster C Personality Disorders

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12.8 When It Doesn't Work

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12.9 The Big Picture

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Chapter 13: For Families and Carers

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13.1 What It Feels Like to Live With OC

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13.2 Recognising the Five Themes at Home

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13.3 The Partner Who Never Cried

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13.4 What Not to Do

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13.5 Another Real Example: The Parent and Anorexia

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13.6 Radical Openness at Home

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13.7 Supporting Treatment

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13.8 A Third Real Example: The Team Member Nobody Knew

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13.9 When to Seek Help Yourself

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13.10 When It Doesn't Work

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13.11 What to Hold On To

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Conclusion: A Life Worth Sharing

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C.1 What the Destination Actually Is

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C.2 What Progress Looks Like From Outside

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C.3 What Progress Feels Like From Inside

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C.4 Where the Evidence Is Heading

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C.5 Your Next Steps

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C.6 A Final Note to Carers

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Appendix B: The Five OC Behavioral Themes

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Appendix C: Glossary of Key Terms

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