One of our major focal points in DBT is increasing assertiveness and giving people skills to navigate negative situations more effectively. This recent article includes one woman’s account of how these particular skills became life changing for her: “For me, the most important part of DBT was learning how to manage my interpersonal relationships, something most of us have great difficulty with.”

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