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• 16. Strive to follow the assumptions about clients
• This exercise is based on the Cope Ahead skill (Linehan, 2015a, 2015b) and can be easily adapted to meet any team’s specific needs.
• 7. Consider oneself part of a community of therapists treating a community of clients.
• 8. Provide “therapy for the therapist” in the team; address each member’s own and others’ obstacles to providing DBT with fidelity to the manual.
• 9. Provide DBT; not combine, alternate between, or add in other treatment modalities unless doing so effectively and mindfully (e.g., in DBT one might add another cognitive-behavioral therapy [CBT] manual while treating quality-of-life-interfering targets such as obsessive–compulsive disorder [OCD] or binge eating). This allows for a common languag...