Beyond Skills: Using Core DBT Dialectics in Clinical Practice

Dialectical Behavior Therapy is a well-researched approach to treating various mental health conditions. It has a well-developed and represented body of training in the alphabet soup of skills clinicians can present to their clients. This training forgoes the exploration of DBT skills and instead focuses on the core philosophy and dialectics on which DBT is built. Clinicians will be introduced to dialectics as a set of flexible paradigms meant to help guide clinical decision-making and interventions and improve the therapy experience for the client and therapist.