Medically reviewed by Geralyn Dexter, PhD, LMHC Key Takeaways Dialectical behavior therapy helps people manage intense ...

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DBT includes both weekly sessions of individual therapy and weekly skills-training sessions conducted in small groups. Studies of DBT have documented improvement within a year of treatment, ...

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is designed for people who experience extreme emotional suffering because they lack the skills of emotion regulation and distress tolerance. The basic affliction can ...

Specifically, first and foremost, DBT attends to behavior. It looks to understand why behavior occurs, what reinforces that behavior, and how to change maladaptive behavior," noted Andrew Dillenbeck, ...