Understanding Chain Analysis

By Eric Nykamp, LMSW at Adolescent & Family Behavioral Health Services
This video uses the metaphor of a comic strip to illustrate the therapeutic tool of chain analysis. This tool, used in Dialectical Behavior Therapy, helps individuals understand how their emotions are impacted by thoughts, behaviors, and stressful situations. Once understood, this tool can be a helpful way to look at ways of impacting ingrained patterns of thinking and behaving to potentially achieve different outcomes.