What are DBT Skills?
If you struggle with intense emotions, anxiety, depression, borderline personality disorder, interpersonal difficulties, or problematic ways of coping, DBT Skills may be helpful!
DBT Skills
DBT Skills provide people with effective ways to deal with painful emotions, reduce suffering, increase emotional balance, improve relationships, and create more life balance and fulfillment.
If you struggle with intense emotions or problematic ways of coping, DBT Skills can provide you with strategies that will move your life in more positive directions. These are Skills for living well and meeting life’s challenges effectively.
DBT Skills are a component of Dialectical Behavior Therapy.
DBT is a form of therapy rooted in mindfulness, cognitive behavioral therapy and behaviorism designed to help clients create a life worth living. This treatment also involves valuable skills training in mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, emotion regulation, and distress tolerance to help move clients towards their individual goals and values. Developed by Marsha Linehan, Ph.D., DBT has been empirically validated through controlled scientific studies to be an effective treatment for a variety of disorders that involve emotional, cognitive, interpersonal, and/or behavioral difficulties. For more information, please click on the following link to view the Behavioral Tech website, which was created by the founder of DBT, Marsha Linehan, PhD.
How can DBT Skills Help Me?
Improve your ability to regulate emotions and act wisely:
Improve emotional balance
Improve ability to tolerate painful emotions
Reduce impulsivity
Improve ability to deal with Intense emotions without the use of destructive behaviors
Reduce destructive or harmful behaviors
Develop a stronger sense of self
Improve focus and concentration
Develop healthy flexibility
Improve functioning and communication in interpersonal relationships
Improve social connectedness
Reduce avoidance behavior
Move towards values and goals
DBT Skills can enhance your life and emotional wellbeing.
DBT Skills Modules
Skills training is taught in four modules: Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, and Distress Tolerance. Each module contains valuable skills to help clients eliminate destructive behaviors, improve emotion regulation, increase interpersonal effectiveness, and develop greater self-awareness.
Core Mindfulness
Learn mindfulness skills that develop greater self-awareness, contact with the present moment, and to reduce reactivity. Mindfulness helps us to be more effective at life and more emotionally balanced.
Interpersonal Effectiveness
Learn how to be more effective in your relationships. develop and maintain healthy relationships, improve communication, and maintain self-respect within relationships.
Emotion Regulation
Learn how to create emotional balance and reduce emotional extremes. Improve your ability to regulate emotions, problem solve, and increase healthy behaviors that move you towards what matters to you.
Distress Tolerance
Learn how to deal with intense emotions and urges without engaging in destructive behaviors. Some skills involve acceptance of reality and other skills involve surviving a crisis.