In this essay I describe the abstract logic of dialectical systems. I recognize that my description may be too abstract (not to mention tentative) to be of much use by itself. Even so, it will be helpful for the reader’s general understanding of dialectical structures if I point out certain abstract, general features of them, and in any case I mean this description to be used in conjunction wit...

The Multitheoretical List of Therapeutic Interventions (MULTI) assesses interventions from eight different psychotherapy orientations (behavioral, cognitive, dialectical-behavioral, interpersonal, person centered, psychodynamic, process-experiential, and common factors) and from the perspective of clients, therapists, and observers. The internal consistency for the subscales was moderate to hig...

LINDA A. DIMEFF, PH.D., is a chief sci­ entific officer at Behavioral Tech Research, Inc., a research organization dedicated to the dissemination of evidence-based prac­ tices (EBPs). She is also a clinical instructor in the Department of Psychology at the Uni­ versity of Washington. Her research inter­ ests include EBPs, addictive behaviors, dialec­ tical behavior therapy (DBT), and the adapta...

Mental health counselors are facing increased demand to treat both adolescents and adults who present with repetitive non-suicidal self-injurious behaviors, yet there are few empirically supported treatments or general treatment guidelines available. I will review the research on problem-solving and dialectical behavior therapy, two cognitive-behavioral treatments that have the most empirical s...

Debate about our article on culture and dialectical thinking (Peng & Nisbett, September 1999) exemplifies a thousand-yearold Confucian saying: If the participants in an intellectual discourse have different understandings about the topic in question, then the conversation will surely get difficult. Being the perpetrators who opened this Pandora's box, we feel obligated to clarify some of the co...

The multi-perspective decision-making paradigm [2, 15, 9] is extended to include a dialectical process to assist in developing decision support systems in “wicked” situations with much conflict among stakeholder groups. A dialectical methodology is proposed and applied to a wicked decision problem namely, urban infrastructure management, to illustrate the model. The dialectical analysis highlig...

In December 2015, at the request of the Washington State Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery (DBHR), the University of Washington Alcohol & Drug Abuse Institute (ADAI) put forth an inventory of evidence-based programs and practices (EBPs) for treating substance use in adolescents and (12-17 years old) and young adults (18-20 years old). The analysis focused exclusively on substance use-r...

In recent years, various therapeutic interventions have been established that extended behavior and cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) by so-called "third-wave" strategies. In order to address specific therapeutic challenges in certain subgroups of patients who do not sufficiently respond to "classical CBT," some of these third-wave strategies put particular emphasis on therapist self-disclosure....