Dialectical Behavior Therapy For Borderline Personality Disorder

摘要

Dialectical Behavior Therapy is a treatment specifically designed to treat patients suffering from Borderline Personality Disorder. Although it is basically an individual therapy it is delivered by a team of therapists with the individual therapist serving as the primary therapist. Skills training is an important component of the therapeutic intervention. The therapy has been found to be significantly effective in reducing borderline symptomatology and specifically suicidality and serf harming behaviors.