DBT

COMPONENTS OF Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)

There are four components of comprehensive DBT:

• DBT skills group
• Individual therapy
• DBT phone coaching
• DBT consultation team for the therapist’

DBT SKILLS GROUP

DBT includes four behavioral skill modules, with two acceptance-oriented skills (mindfulness and distress tolerance) and two change-oriented skills (emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness).

• Mindfulness: the practice of being fully aware and present in this one moment
• Distress Tolerance: how to tolerate pain in difficult situations, not change it
• Interpersonal Effectiveness: how to ask for what you want and say no while maintaining self-respect and relationships with others
• Emotion Regulation: how to decrease vulnerability to painful emotions and change emotions that you want to change

To enroll, contact CACS at 605-224-5811.