Dialectical Behavior Therapy seeks to educate individuals about a variety of techniques that will assist in effectively regulating their emotions and allowing themselves to live life in the moment. DBT helps individuals adapt to their environments, develop healthy coping skills, regulate their emotions and improve peer and familial relationships. DBT teaches a variety of skills based on the four foundational components including mindfulness, emotional regulation, interpersonal effectiveness, and distress tolerance (Cooper et al., 2021).
(Child Mind Institute, 2016)
Mindfulness: Facilitators will assist clients in building a stronger awareness of being present in the moment and becoming less judgmental of themselves and their peers through the teaching of mindfulness practices and strategies.
Distress Tolerance: Facilitators will teach clients how to properly manage interpersonal crises by teaching calming and acceptance skills such as grounding. Distress tolerance targets an individuals ability to relax, accept, and move on from a crisis that may be out of control of the individual.
Emotion Regulation: Facilitators assist clients in changing unwanted emotions and minimize the clients susceptibility to them by teaching various activities related to mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness.
Interpersonal Effectiveness: Facilitators will teach clients how to work towards meeting their own needs more effectively while continuing to balance relationships with peers, interpersonal relationships, and their relationship with themselves.
Borderline Personality Disorder
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Persistent Depressive Disorder
Anxiety
Depression
Eating Disorders
Mood Disorders
ADHD
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"Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be." - Wayne W. Dyer