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Comment author: k_ebel 07 April 2015 05:50:14PM 1 point [-]

One modified form of CBT that I have personally found very helpful (and - frankly - served as something of a primer for skills I have been learning through this website) is DBT (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectical_behavior_therapy).

Honestly, a lot of the skils are things I think any person could really use. (For me, emotional regulation and interpersonal effectiveness were incredibly helpful and not something that had ever been spelled out to me prior to encountering this).

As a disclaimer: I do think that my experiences may have been very influenced by the fact that I had a really good group and coach who didn't rely on the more rhetorical elements and was happy to provide research-based information upon request, but it's definitely another place to look.