Marsha Linehan has a strong background in behavior modification. DBT has a firm foundation of creating change and documenting the process.
Individuals with borderline personality disorder often have strong emotional reactions to events, at times feeling the emotion more intensely than other individuals and for a longer time than others individuals.
Mindfulness will be a key component of this process. You will need the observe and describe skills to be present and ready to look at your strong emotion and the event that prompted it.
The What skills of mindfulness are Observe, Describe and Participate.
The How skills are one-mindfully, nonjudgmentally, and effectively. These will be discussed in future entries.
This is Marsha Linehan's process for the chain analysis:
1. Observe and describe the event prompting the emotion. Just the facts- no judgments, "I should have" statements, or rationale.
2. Observe and describe the interpretations of the event that prompt the emotion.
3. Observe and describe the phenomenological experience, including the physical sensation, of the emotion. Phenomenology is the study of the "lived experience." What is it like to experience the emotions this event?
4. Observe and describe the behaviors expressing the emotion.
5. Observe and describe the aftereffects of the emotion on other types of functioning.
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