Basically the plan is to give tools and support to a person to break old patterns Think clearly and be effective in life and empowered which is in simple terms Marsha Linehan's process of treatment called DBT Dialectical Behavioral Therapy: Dialectical behavioral therapy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia see Wikipedia for details, again a great resource. Now what are we doing here is talking about a form of treatment where we are intent on getting a really good diagnosis, so we can make a really good treatment plan and start a treatment that is adaptable, flexible and works. The treatment planning thus has many variables in play sometimes we even work back from the solution{effective treatment} to the question. Of course to make it more interesting let's make it clear that the answer is not always DBT or it is that in combination with other forms of healing,in fact the treatment doesn't have to even use the same words, one person's pain in the neck to one chiropractor can be an acupuncturist's blocked chi, a good diagnosis simply to completely assess a person's bio-psycho-social-sexual-legal-spiritual and existential situation, in the moment and thru time and generations back on both sided of the family. Using MD's, MD specialists,therapist's ,family therapists social workers,learning and pain management specialists, and so importantly the self reporting and goals. Once all the info and opinions are evaluated, we can start to match the multiple goals through time to the person's safe goals. written 3/20/2008