2020
DOI: 10.1177/0022167820950887
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The Courage to Be: Using DBT Skills to Choose Who to Be in Uncertainty

Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has presented a unique set of circumstances in which most of us are struggling with the same sort of existential questions across our unique contexts and subjective experiences. As we work to answer these questions within the uncertainty of the pandemic, dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) provides tools through which to consider and make meaning of these existential questions. DBT skills, which are aimed at increasing our capacity to practice mindfulness, regulate emotions, tolerate distr… Show more

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“…Both could be true, even if, from a logical perspective, we would have difficulties understanding that opposite emotions or thoughts are both partially true. Dialectics are used in different areas in order to add flexibility to our understanding and thinking, as in pedagogy ( Shea, 2020 ) or psychiatry and psychotherapy.…”
Section: Interdisciplinary Bioethics Training Can Enhance Study Designmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Both could be true, even if, from a logical perspective, we would have difficulties understanding that opposite emotions or thoughts are both partially true. Dialectics are used in different areas in order to add flexibility to our understanding and thinking, as in pedagogy ( Shea, 2020 ) or psychiatry and psychotherapy.…”
Section: Interdisciplinary Bioethics Training Can Enhance Study Designmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Opening ourselves up to new possibilities in the face of a shared and sustained threat, then, is no small task. New learning and strategy development can only occur in the face of terror if it is understood as a meaningful way to affirm our place in the world in ways that extend past our human mortality (Shea, 2021). This tasks educators with the challenging assignment of managing their own reactions to a sustained global crisis while also providing scaffolding to invite students to engage in new learning and critical thinking in ways that feel safe and meaningful.…”
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