If You Find Validation Confusing, This May Help

If You Find Validation Confusing, This May Help

In the early 1980’s Marsha Linehan, PhD, developed a breakthrough treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and other psychological difficulties. She called it Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). A key component in DBT is a set of social skills that...

Just listening to a person is validating

“Just listening to a person is validating because it says – ‘Your talking, so obviously you think what your saying is worth saying’ and if I pay attention that says – ‘I agree with you what you have to say is important’ so validation is...
A New Pathway to Change in Borderline Personality Disorder

A New Pathway to Change in Borderline Personality Disorder

With its symptoms involving longstanding and deep-seated difficulties in identity, relationships, and coping with emotions, it might seem that borderline personality disorder (BPD) might be baked into an individual’s ability to manage in everyday life.