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A comprehensive DBT service must include five key components: enhancing clients' capabilities through skills training, improving therapists' motivation and capability in a Consult Group, ensuring clients receive extra help to generalize skills, improving clients' motivation while reducing impediments to progress, and structuring the environment to promote skilled behavior. The Therapists' Consult Group is essential for effective DBT practice, and adaptations may be necessary in non-standard settings. Collaboration with established DBT teams in specialized areas can provide additional support and guidance.

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A comprehensive DBT service must include five key components: enhancing clients' capabilities through skills training, improving therapists' motivation and capability in a Consult Group, ensuring clients receive extra help to generalize skills, improving clients' motivation while reducing impediments to progress, and structuring the environment to promote skilled behavior. The Therapists' Consult Group is essential for effective DBT practice, and adaptations may be necessary in non-standard settings. Collaboration with established DBT teams in specialized areas can provide additional support and guidance.

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What are the 5 Components of a Comprehensive DBT Service?

Your program must meet all five of these functions

In a Standard In a Standard
Outpatient Service 2. Enhance Outpatient Service
this is done in a clients’ this is done in
weekly skills capabilities by one-to-one
training group formally sessions with the
teaching them primary therapist
skills

4. Ensure 1. Enhance 3. Improve


clients have therapists’ clients’
extra help to capability & motivation &
generalise skills motivation in a reduce factors
to their natural Consult Group impeding
environment progress

In a Standard
Outpatient Service In a Standard
5. Structure the
this is done with environment to Outpatient Service
this is done at an
out-of-hours promote clients’
organisational level
telephone skilful
and via family or
coaching from the behaviour
marital interventions
primary therapist

In DBT a community of therapists treat a community of clients and so the


Therapists’ Consult Group is at the heart of your DBT program; if you do not
attend a regular consult group you are not doing DBT. However, you may have to
be creative about how and where your group meets, for example using video-
conferencing, or alternating venues.

There are many challenges to meeting all five functions if your setting varies from
the standard out-patient service. You may have to change the methods by which
some of the functions are met, but you must be able to identify how they are each
being delivered.

If you are in a specialist area it may be helpful to confer with more established
DBT teams in your specific field, for example in acute in-patient or forensic
settings.

© Christine Dunkley 2009

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