1. Aranka Dol @ ECP 2015 Milano e-Dialectical Behaviour Therapy: online training for obese emotional eaters Aranka Dol
Hanzehogeschool Groningen University of Applied Sciences

2. Introduction My name is... Aranka Dol
@ School of Communication, Media & IT Hanzehogeschool Groningen,
University of Applied Sciences.
research:
PhD candidate since sept promotor: prof. dr. Tatjana van Strien, Radboud University Nijmegen
member research group professorship New Business & ICT Hanzehogeschool Groningen
teaching: minorprogram Healthy Ageing, ITsm & security, Agile project Software Engineering, research skills, study counselor.
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3. Introduction Research topic
topic: Dialectical Behaviour Therapy: online (guided) self help training for obese emotional eaters (start sept. 2014)
Research question: How can we, with the employment of which modalities from persuasive technologies (captology), translate the dialectical ‘mechanism of change’ in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy into an online guided self help emotion regulation training for emotional eaters with (severe) overweight?
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4. DBT + ehealth emotional eating
emotional eating = eating in response to negative emotional states
emotional eaters don’t benefit enough from existing therapies
- dietary and lifestyle advice
- cognitive behaviour therapy
treatments do not focus on their problems with emotion regulation
weight reduction in short term
weight gain in the long run (jojo effect)
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5. DBT + ehealth Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and eating disorders
DBT for Borderline Disorder (Marsha Linehan)
DBT for Binge Eating Disorder (Safer, Telch & Chen, 2009)
pilot obese emotional eaters (Roosen, 2013) reduction emotional eating weight maintenance etc.
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6. DBT + ehealth Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy: focus on problems with emotion regulation
mindfulness awareness and acceptance developing a wise mind
emotion regulation observing and describing your emotions controlling the chain emotion <-> behaviour emotional vulnerability positive emotions
stress tolerance dealing with pain suffering = pain + no acceptance
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7. DBT + ehealth Dialectical Behaviour Therapy 7 7 19-4-2019
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8. DBT + ehealth ehealth / e-mental health why building an app?
growing demand for ehealth care
self management
care on a distance (anonymous)
low cost
health insurance companies – 10%
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9. DBT + ehealth the construction, the modules
1. introduction to the user
2. mindfulness skills (2 modules)
3. emotion regulation skills (3 modules)
4. stress tolerance skills (3 modules)
5. virtual coach with dialectical dialogue, containing chain analyses and a diary (ongoing)
(standard) duration of the training is 8 weeks/modules
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10. DBT + ehealth virtual coach ‘oracle’ for the user
source of information on the training (FAQ)
dialectical dialogues based on exercises
walking the middle path
how to think and act dialectically
opposite action (DBT coach Rizvi, 2011)
planning dialectical abstinence
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11. DBT + ehealth virtual coach prototype first prototype released
natural language processing...
next steps....
emotion recognition (facial, voice, text...)
using chat bot techniques -to create real conversations -to personalize conversations
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12. DBT + ehealth Thank you for listening
Open for comments and inspiration!!!!
Aranka Dol
Lectoraat New Business & ICT School for Communication, Media & IT Zernikeplein 11, GRONINGEN room D (0) (0) .
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