Dialectical Behavior Therapy
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Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is a broad-based approach that integrates cognitive-behavioral therapy with acceptance-based approaches. Dialectical philosophy informs the practice of treatment and its contradictory synthesis of acceptance and change strategies. Marsha Linehan, the founder of DBT, originally designed the approach as an outpatient treatment to address the unique needs of chronically suicidal people diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. Over the past three decades DBT has been disseminated widely across a diverse range of health care contexts and adapted to a range of clinical populations characterized by severe and complex problems and problems of emotional dysregulation. Knowledge of DBT is important and timely given its appeal and effectiveness with complex and severe clinical populations.
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