Psychology / Unit 12 Psych 1407 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
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The idea
Dialectical behavior therapy combines acceptance and change strategies to build emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills.
In practice
Skills training addresses tolerating intense emotion without acting on it, alongside individual therapy.
Where people slip
It was developed specifically for chronic emotional dysregulation and self-harm risk, where general approaches performed poorly.
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