Understanding The Effectiveness of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Skills Training on Emotion Regulation Among Men with Alcohol Dependence

Abstract

In treating various psychiatric disorders one therapy which tends to stand out because of its wide use and applicability is Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Skills Training. Focus of the current research was to evaluate and see the usefulness of the Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Skills Training Module for Emotion Regulation as well as to see if it has the capacity to regulate emotions in the case of men with alcohol dependency disorder. Total 20 patients were taken as participants for the study. Out of this 10 belonged to the experimental group and 10 were waitlisted or from controlled group. The data was being collected from rehabilitation centre (inpatient) from Pune. Here, in order to assess emotion regulation among the participants, total of ten group therapy sessions were taken in order to assess the same. Pre and Post interventions were assessed in order to see for their ability to regulate emotions for the samples used in the Study. Results of the study showed that there existed a significant difference on the capacity to control emotions among samples from the controlled and experimental groups. This current study fills the gap in the available literature. One of the important aspects of this study is that this skills training programs are not only economic, but are also helpful in cutting off the resource strains. And hence these can be effectively used to make changes in the society.