Teaching Mindfulness Skills in DBT
The Oxford Handbook of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy November 1, 2018 Maggie Stanton, Christine Dunkley
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) differs from other approaches by teaching mindfulness as a set of skills. In contrast to mindfulness-based therapies such as Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), DBT makes a distinction between observe, describe, and participate (the “What Skills”) and teaches each as a separate skill. DBT makes explicit...