🔑 Key Definitions
CBT 🧠: Most widely used evidence-based approach - focuses on connection between thoughts → feelings → behaviors
DBT 💬: Developed by Marsha Linehan for BPD - balances acceptance AND change (dialectics)
👤 Important Figure
- Marsha Linehan - Developed DBT for Borderline Personality Disorder
💭 8 Cognitive Distortions in Offenders
- 1. All-or-nothing thinking - Black and white
- 2. Minimization - "It wasn't that bad"
- 3. Blaming - "It's their fault"
- 4. Entitlement - "I deserve this"
- 5. Catastrophizing - Expecting worst
- 6. Mind reading - Assuming others' thoughts
- 7. Emotional reasoning - "I feel it, so it's true"
- 8. Should statements - Rigid rules
💬 4 DBT Skills Modules (MEMORIZE!)
- 1. Mindfulness - Present-moment awareness, no judgment
- 2. Distress Tolerance - Surviving crises without making worse
- 3. Emotion Regulation - Understanding & managing emotions
- 4. Interpersonal Effectiveness - Communication & relationship skills
🏛️ CBT Programs in Forensic Settings
- ETS - Enhanced Thinking Skills
- ART - Aggression Replacement Training
- Anger Management programs
💡 Exam Tips
- CBT = MOST evidence-based in forensic settings!
- Know the 8 cognitive distortions - commonly tested
- DBT = developed for BPD by Marsha Linehan
- DBT has 4 modules: Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Emotion Regulation, Interpersonal Effectiveness
- Behavioral: reinforcement, punishment, token economy, shaping, modeling