Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
This is designed to serve five functions: enhance capabilities, increase motivation, enhance generalisation to the natural environment, structure the environment, and improve clinician capabilities and motivation to treat effectively. The overall goal is the reduction of ineffective action tendencies linked with deregulated emotions. It is delivered in four modes of therapy. The first mode involves a traditional didactic relationship with the clinician.
The second mode is skills training which involves teaching the four basic DBT skills of mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. Skills generalisation is the third mode of therapy in which the focus is on helping the individual to integrate the skills learnt into real-life situations. The fourth mode of therapy is team consultation, which is designed to support clinicians working with difficult clients.