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DBT, or Dialectical Behavior Therapy, is a comprehensive model of therapy developed by Marsha Linehan PhD.
The focus of DBT is on providing alternative coping skills to maladaptive behavior and skills to improve the quality of life.
Clients are asked for a substantial time commitment, given homework and provided opportunity to practice new skills.
A variety of groups are offered including:
 Adolescent Group (with a parent component)
Basic Group
Bi-weekly Groups
Evening Groups
Groups focus on teaching and practicing coping skills in the areas of:
Core mindfulness
Interpersonal effectiveness
Emotion regulation
Distress tolerance
Walking the middle path
Clients must be engaged in individual therapy on an every-other-week basis with a DBT-trained therapist.
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DBT is for clients who struggle with:
Inadequate sense of self, low self esteem
Impulsive self damaging behavior and/or suicidal behavior
Rapid switches of affect and mood, intense emotions
Chaotic relationships, fear of abandonment, inability to sustain relationships
Dissociation, depersonalization
Diagnostic categories appropriate for referral include, but are not limited to:
Anxiety
Depression
Conduct Disorder
Oppositional Defiant Disorder
Disruptive Behavior Disorder
Borderline Personality Disorder
Dissociative Disorders
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
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