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Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) was originally developed as a cognitive-behavioral approach to treatment for individuals who (1) meet the criteria for a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder (BPD) and (2) exhibit suicidal behavior (Linehan et al. 1991). DBT can be utilized on an individual basis or as a group skills training (Linehan 1993b, pp. 8–11). Research has shown that DBT is highly effective in the treatment of suicidal behavior among adults with BPD features (Linehan et al. 1993). These findings have been extended to adolescents, which has resulted in the development of Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Adolescents (DBT-A; Miller 1999). To aid in the delivery of DBT for adolescents, a DBT-A Skills Manual was recently published (Rathus and Miller 2015). In...
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Floyd, P.N., Charles, N.E. (2020). Dialectical Behavior Therapy. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24612-3_890
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