Recovery Skill: Behavior chain analysis
Here is what a behavior chain looks like, we can use these to look at what we have done in the past to cope and what triggers it down the chain, so we can change something before we get to the troubled behavior.
Questions:
1) How can the behavior chain specifically help you?
2) What is the benifit(s) of using this behavior chain?
3) What is a challenge for you to use this behavior chain?
I have a bit of an aversion to behaviour chain analysis after such a bad experience with them in DBT (therapist would go through the same chain each week for my self-harm but we'd never have time to get to ways of breaking that chain).
@LittleLotte ..... Agreed. Just hearing/reading "Behavior Chain Analysis," I feel like (rolls eyes) not this again :( I don't know that I was actually in DBT at the time, but it was difficult. And I didn't ever see measurable output/success with it. Oh well.
@cyanPlatypus6370 I am sorry to hear that this exercise doesn't help you, but it's made to look at where we can make improvements in the chain of events that happens. It's not made to be "homework" or something you need to do all the time. Just something to think about in your head of, "where can I improve, so that I don't relapse"? And it's a process, nothing is going to change overnight.