ReviewPsychology research and behavior management2020
Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy: Social Signaling, Transdiagnostic Utility and Current Evidence.
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- Efficacy of dialectical behavior therapy-based interventions for individuals with autism spectrum disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC psychology · 2026Pooled it
- Effects of cognitive behavioural therapy and exposure-response prevention on brain activation in obsessive-compulsive disorder patients: systematic review and meta-analysis.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2025Pooled it
- Transdiagnostic patient experiences of dialectical behavioural therapy: a systematic review and metasynthesis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Processes of change in a randomized clinical trial of radically open dialectical behavior therapy (RO DBT) for adults with treatment-refractory depression.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2023Trial
- Neural signatures of emotional intent and inference align during social consensus.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Psychological Flexibility, Coping Styles, and Mood Among Individuals With Cystic Fibrosis.Biopsychosocial science and medicine · 2025Article
- Investigating the pattern of transdiagnostic related to emotion regulation of adolescents with high-risk behavior and effectiveness of integrated transdiagnostic protocol on reduction of their anxiety, depression, and emotional dysregulation.Journal of education and health promotion · 2025Article
- Skills program for awareness, connectedness, and empowerment: A conceptual framework of a skills group for individuals with a psychosis-risk syndrome.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Childhood behavioral inhibition and overcontrol: Relationships with cognitive functioning, error monitoring, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive symptoms.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2022Article
- Leisure Satisfaction, Personality, and Psychosexual Adjustment Among College Students: A Latent Profile Analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Evaluation of radically open dialectical behaviour therapy in an adult community mental health team: effectiveness in people with autism spectrum disorders.BJPsych bulletin · 2021Article
- Sharing and connecting with others - patient experiences of radically open dialectical behavior therapy for anorexia nervosa and overcontrol: a qualitative study.Journal of eating disorders · 2021Article
- Targeting maladaptive overcontrol with radically open dialectical behaviour therapy in a day programme for adolescents with restrictive eating disorders: an uncontrolled case series.Journal of eating disorders · 2020Article
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Abstract
At the core of an overcontrolled personality and coping style is a tendency to have too much self-control, exhibiting as behavioral and cognitive inflexibility, high inhibition of emotion, high detail-focused processing and perfectionism, and a lack of social connectedness. Overcontrol underlies a wide variety of psychiatric illnesses and as such, an innovative transdiagnostic therapy called Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy (RO DBT) has been developed to treat disorders characterized by overcontrol. RO DBT targets maladaptive social signaling in order to help individuals "rejoin the tribe," hypothesizing that increasing social connectedness by means of targeting social signaling is the central mechanism of change in treatment. Because RO DBT is used for individuals with an overcontrolled personality style, rather than individual disordered symptoms, it can be used transdiagnostically across a range of comorbid disorders, including treatment-resistant depression and anxiety, anorexia nervosa, and personality disorders such as obsessive-compulsive personality disorder. The current article introduces this novel treatment approach and discusses its emphasis on social signaling and its transdiagnostic nature. We then provide the first review of existing literature testing the efficacy of RO DBT across clinical populations, discuss issues related to assessment of overcontrol, and speculate on future directions for this novel therapy.
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