It consists of group instruction and individual therapy sessions, both conducted weekly for six months to a year, The “dialectic” in dialectical behavior therapy is an acknowledgment that real ...

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) was developed at the University of Washington by Marsha M. Linehan, Ph.D. DBT was originally developed to treat interpersonal chaos, intense emotional swings, ...

Most types of therapy have individual goals that the patient and therapist determine through their sessions. But DBT ...