How does DBT for Drug Addiction Work?
During Dialectical Behavior Therapy for drug addiction, the therapist will engage the patient in a series of role-playing, “what if” scenarios – each one designed to help illicit the following skills: • Treating others with more respect. Drug addiction makes people selfish and unconcerned with anything, save their pursuit of getting high. DBT teaches the recovering addict how to form meaningful, respectful relationships with new acquaintances as well as the people they may have harmed emotionally while under the influence. • Gaining more self-respect. In order for an individual to succeed in their recovery, they must first learn to love and respect themselves. Dialectical behavior therapy teaches self-reliance and the proper way to rebuild self-image. • Learning how to say NO. Perhaps the single biggest obstacle to recovery in the months following drug rehab is succumbing to temptation. By providing a series of real world scenarios to play through, the DBT program is preparing the indi
