Discussion
Dialectical behaviour therapy was developed by Marcia Linehan mainly to treat people with :
Answer: A
DBT was developed mainly for people with borderline personality disorder who were chronically suicidal.
Marsha Linehan created dialectical behaviour therapy in the late 1980s for chronically suicidal women with borderline personality disorder, a group that standard cognitive behaviour therapy had served poorly. DBT balances acceptance (validation, mindfulness) with change (skills training in emotion regulation, distress tolerance and interpersonal effectiveness), the 'dialectic' of its name.
It has since been adapted for other problems, but it was not designed for antisocial traits, early psychosis or panic disorder. (The paper prints her first name as 'Marcia'.)
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