The independent roles of mindfulness and distress tolerance in treatment outcomes in dialectical behavior therapy skills training.
Personality disorders May 1, 2020 R. Zeifman, Tali Boritz, R. Barnhart et al.
Despite research supporting the effectiveness of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) for borderline personality disorder (BPD), few studies have examined how DBT leads to clinical change. DBT is theorized to lead to improved clinical outcomes by enhancing the capacity for emotion regulation, including improvement in skills (e.g., mindfulness and distress tolerance) for managing emotional...