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Old Mar 05, 2011, 01:56 PM
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Kacey, does this test have any impact on the DBT class? Can you still take the class even if they found your test results inconclusive? If the answer is yes, I would just leave this test and its results behind. Many practitioners find face to face meetings and getting to know a client more useful in evaluation than tests like these, so hopefully the DBT class therapist will be of this mind. Just go to the class and do your best to learn the skills. I am sure the skills group therapist will appreciate your motivation and effort. I don't understand the examiner's comment of your being only a fair candidate for DBT and it being hard to change your thinking/feeling/behaving. If not DBT, then what does she suggest as an alternative? Individual therapy? CBT? Telling someone that a certain method of therapy will likely not be helpful to them is not very useful unless they also tell what approach would be helpful.

On psych tests: I find that a lot of tests like these give you two possible responses to a question, both of which are quite extreme. I usually fall in the middle so don't know what to pick. I often pick one response on a question, and then if a similar question comes up again, I pick the opposite. This way I hope the answers will even out and place me somewhere in the middle. If this makes my results seem inconclusive or inconsistent, so be it. I place the fault with the writers of the test who don't offer intermediate responses that reflect where I am in life, my true personality, etc.
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