Recovery with Dialectical Therapy with Dr. Buffy Wooten

Clinical Psychologist Buffy Wooten will be our special guest today on this re-broadcast show with her topic "Recovery Utilizing Dialectical Behavior Therapy. She has been conducting Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) since 2000. DBT is a specialized cognitive-behavioral approach to substance abuse and anger management areas. There are four training modules: Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Distress Tolerance, and Emotion Regulation. -DBT has proven an effective treatment for drug abuse. -DBT has outperformed control treatments in reducing intentional self-injury, inpatient hospitalizations, hopelessness, depression, dissociation, anger, and impulsivity.