In this episode, Charlie and Nicole role play a therapy session in which the client plans to terminate her pregnancy. DBT skills help her decide if, and how, she’ll share her plans with her partner who is very excited about having the child.
This was a very helpful episode in that I’m thinking about all the different kinds of circumstances it applies to – the person who wants to tell their devout spouse that they aren’t going to go to church anymore, for example. The conversation after the role play about the inevitability of hurting people we love and how to do that with without defensiveness and anger but with honesty and genuineness was pure gold.
This was a very helpful episode in that I’m thinking about all the different kinds of circumstances it applies to – the person who wants to tell their devout spouse that they aren’t going to go to church anymore, for example. The conversation after the role play about the inevitability of hurting people we love and how to do that with without defensiveness and anger but with honesty and genuineness was pure gold.