DBT provides individual's with new skills to manage painful emotions and decrease conflict in relationships.

DBT provides skills in five key areas:

1. Mindfulness: improving an individual's ability to accept and be present in the moment.

2. Distress Tolerance: geared towards increasing a person's tolerance of negative emotion, rather than escaping it.

3. Walking the Middle Path: focuses on learning that there is more than one way to see a situation or solve a problem by balancing acceptance and change.

4. Emotion Regulation: strategies to manage and change intense emotions that are causing problems in a person's life.

5. Interpersonal Effectiveness: techniques that allow a person to communicate with others in a way that is assertive, maintains self-respect, and strengthens relationship.

Reference: From DBT® Skills Manual for Adolescents, by Jill H. Rathus and Alec L. Miller. Copyright 2015 by The Guilford Press.