Max,a Borderline Client Who Professes to Believe That All People

Multiple Choice

Max,a borderline client who professes to believe that all people are untrustworthy,is seeing a DBT therapist who is working to address this belief and help Max see that this expectation is not always accurate.From a DBT perspective,what is the counselor doing?

A) Attempting to relieve client suffering by applying a a strict set of interventions.
B) Providing empathy in order to encourage change.
C) Educating the client on the way the world really is.
D) Working to engage dialectic tension in order achieve synthesis and transcend the tensions.