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Old Jul 14, 2015, 06:51 PM
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What is DBT?
DBT is Dialectical Behavioral Therapy. It teaches skills & gives practice on those skills for emotional regulation, mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, & Distress Tolerance. I have come to realize that it's all the skills that normal functional parents are capable of teaching their children....however there are so many dysfunctional parents or parents who have been brought up by dysfunctional parents who weren't able to teach them these skills. IMO, it should be a high school class for all seniors because these skills are what EVERY person needs to know to become more functional in this world & to deal with ALL kinds of stressful situations. Here in the area of the US I live in, it's the community mental health center that offers the 2 year DBT group then offers for those who made it through that, the DBT Next Step group where we come once a week to continually validate & check out how we are doing with the DBT skills.
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