Participants described recovery as more than symptom remission, involving wellness, flourishing and an experienced life worth living.
DBT-ACES extends DBT toward employment, social and financial independence and explicitly reframes treatment around building a life worth living.
Long-term benefits included sustained skills, changes in self-understanding and functioning, and the ability to live differently after treatment.
Interpersonal problems mediated associations between borderline features and presence of meaning in life.
badanie links reflective functioning and personal recovery narratives in a naturalistic online setting.
Psychotherapies improved quality of life versus controls, pooled Cohen d=0.31; QoL effect was not simply explained by change in BPD pathology.
Reviews evidence that changes in emotion regulation, self-efficacy, hope and other processes may contribute to broad DBT outcomes.
Meta-analytic synthesis supports an overall positive relationship between meaning in life and subjective well-being across studies.
81% met symptomatic remission criteria, but only 44% had GAF >60 and 49% had satisfaction with life within 1 SD of normal; symptom remission alone was insufficient to define recovery.
Core recovery processes involved becoming engaged with DBT, learning its language, consolidating skills and changing everyday life.