How mothers with severe emotion dysregulation use DBT skills in parenting contexts: observational coding of skills use in a DBT skills training group
Abstract Background Dialectical Behavior Therapy’s (DBT) well established effectiveness in reducing emotion dysregulation, and the growing recognition that parental emotion regulation is critical to effective parenting has led to increasing interest in the applicability of DBT skills to parenting. E...
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| author | Yoel Everett Olivia A. Frigoletto Jacqueline R. O’Brien Amy L. Byrd Stephanie D. Stepp Maureen Zalewski |
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| description | Abstract Background Dialectical Behavior Therapy’s (DBT) well established effectiveness in reducing emotion dysregulation, and the growing recognition that parental emotion regulation is critical to effective parenting has led to increasing interest in the applicability of DBT skills to parenting. Efforts to integrate DBT and parenting interventions would benefit from an empirical examination of which DBT skills are most useful to parents with emotion dysregulation. Methods This study used clinician-rated observational coding of skill use examples that were provided by mothers with severe emotion dysregulation (n = 16) who participated in a standard 48-week DBT Skills Training (DBT-ST) program in the context of a larger randomized controlled trial (NCT03060902). Mothers described their use of DBT skills during the homework review portion of DBT-ST sessions and video-recordings were then examined and coded to identify which DBT skills mothers most frequently described using in parenting situations (vs. non-parenting situations) and which skills were used to either increase positive parenting behaviors or to decrease negative parenting behaviors. Results A total of 220 skill use examples were coded and approximately one-quarter described skill use in parenting situations. Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, and Emotion Regulation skills were the most frequently described skills used in parenting situations, while Interpersonal Effectiveness skills were rarely coded. Mindfulness and Emotion Regulation skills were most often coded when mothers’ parenting goal was to increase positive parenting, while Distress Tolerance skills were most often coded when mothers’ parenting goal was to decrease negative parenting behaviors. Conclusions Results provide an empirical basis which clinicians and treatment developers can use when selecting DBT skills to apply towards parenting challenges. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-4ddfbdd7812d462a9910a947b4d235b82025-02-09T12:12:54ZengBMCBorderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation2051-66732025-02-0112111210.1186/s40479-025-00279-2How mothers with severe emotion dysregulation use DBT skills in parenting contexts: observational coding of skills use in a DBT skills training groupYoel Everett0Olivia A. Frigoletto1Jacqueline R. O’Brien2Amy L. Byrd3Stephanie D. Stepp4Maureen Zalewski5Department of Psychology, University of OregonDepartment of Psychology, University of OregonDepartment of Pediatrics, Oregon Health and Science UniversityDepartment of Psychiatry, University of PittsburghDepartment of Psychiatry, University of PittsburghDepartment of Psychology, University of OregonAbstract Background Dialectical Behavior Therapy’s (DBT) well established effectiveness in reducing emotion dysregulation, and the growing recognition that parental emotion regulation is critical to effective parenting has led to increasing interest in the applicability of DBT skills to parenting. Efforts to integrate DBT and parenting interventions would benefit from an empirical examination of which DBT skills are most useful to parents with emotion dysregulation. Methods This study used clinician-rated observational coding of skill use examples that were provided by mothers with severe emotion dysregulation (n = 16) who participated in a standard 48-week DBT Skills Training (DBT-ST) program in the context of a larger randomized controlled trial (NCT03060902). Mothers described their use of DBT skills during the homework review portion of DBT-ST sessions and video-recordings were then examined and coded to identify which DBT skills mothers most frequently described using in parenting situations (vs. non-parenting situations) and which skills were used to either increase positive parenting behaviors or to decrease negative parenting behaviors. Results A total of 220 skill use examples were coded and approximately one-quarter described skill use in parenting situations. Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, and Emotion Regulation skills were the most frequently described skills used in parenting situations, while Interpersonal Effectiveness skills were rarely coded. Mindfulness and Emotion Regulation skills were most often coded when mothers’ parenting goal was to increase positive parenting, while Distress Tolerance skills were most often coded when mothers’ parenting goal was to decrease negative parenting behaviors. Conclusions Results provide an empirical basis which clinicians and treatment developers can use when selecting DBT skills to apply towards parenting challenges.https://doi.org/10.1186/s40479-025-00279-2ParentingEmotion dysregulationDialectical Behavior Therapy skills |
| spellingShingle | Yoel Everett Olivia A. Frigoletto Jacqueline R. O’Brien Amy L. Byrd Stephanie D. Stepp Maureen Zalewski How mothers with severe emotion dysregulation use DBT skills in parenting contexts: observational coding of skills use in a DBT skills training group Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation Parenting Emotion dysregulation Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills |
| title | How mothers with severe emotion dysregulation use DBT skills in parenting contexts: observational coding of skills use in a DBT skills training group |
| title_full | How mothers with severe emotion dysregulation use DBT skills in parenting contexts: observational coding of skills use in a DBT skills training group |
| title_fullStr | How mothers with severe emotion dysregulation use DBT skills in parenting contexts: observational coding of skills use in a DBT skills training group |
| title_full_unstemmed | How mothers with severe emotion dysregulation use DBT skills in parenting contexts: observational coding of skills use in a DBT skills training group |
| title_short | How mothers with severe emotion dysregulation use DBT skills in parenting contexts: observational coding of skills use in a DBT skills training group |
| title_sort | how mothers with severe emotion dysregulation use dbt skills in parenting contexts observational coding of skills use in a dbt skills training group |
| topic | Parenting Emotion dysregulation Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1186/s40479-025-00279-2 |
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