Therapy Toronto Psychotherapy Definitions

Therapist Match:

Alex Belakovsky (North York)

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) is an effective approach towards the resolution of borderline personality disorder (BPD) developed by Marsha Linehan.

It is a comprehensive cognitive behavioural treatment within a biosocial framework. There is a strong emphasis on the building of personal skills and of empowerment.

A DBT therapy usually entails increasing skills in the four areas of mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, management of distress, and better regulation of emotions.

It assists the individual to develop a deeper understanding of themselves and how they function in the world through chain analysis. Generalization and implementation of skills is achieved through coaching.

Psychotherapy glossary by Toronto Therapy Network is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at definitions.TherapyToronto.ca.
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://TherapyToronto.ca/copyright.phtml.