User:Tgentile/Dialectical behavior therapy

This approach was developed by Marsha M. Linehan, a psychology researcher at the University of Washington. She defines dialectical as "a synthesis or integration of opposites". DBT was designed to help people increase their emotional and cognitive regulation by learning about the triggers that lead to reactive states and by helping to assess which coping skills to apply in the sequence of events, thoughts, feelings, and behaviors to help avoid undesired reactions. '''Marsha M. Linehan later disclosed to the public her own struggles and belief that she suffers from borderline personality disorder. Although she didn't realize it at the time, when creating DBT, she was developing the therapy from an innate sense of what she felt she needed herself as a patient.'''