Therapy Skills / DBT
DBT Clinician Session Guide
Structured clinician support for individual Dialectical Behavior Therapy sessions — target hierarchy, risk check, diary card review, behavior chain analysis, a skills coach, and a chart-ready draft note.
Target hierarchyChain analysisSkills coachingDialectics
Clinical use: This is an educational and session-organization aid for trained clinicians. It does not replace clinical judgment, formal DBT training, supervision, emergency procedures, or local standards of care. Any acute suicide, self-harm, or violence concern supersedes routine session flow and is managed under the clinician's emergency and safety protocol.
The DBT stance
Balance validation and acceptance with active change. Hold a nonjudgmental, behavioral, problem-solving orientation: behavior is caused, chains can be interrupted, and both the patient's suffering and the need for a more effective response are true at the same time.
Session setup
Setup