dialectical behavioral therapy http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D000077252 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectical_behavior_therapy https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1208421 An evidence-based psychotherapy that began with efforts to treat personality disorders, and interpersonal conflicts. There is evidence that DBT can be useful in treating mood disorders, suicidal ideation, and for change in behavioral patterns such as self-harm and substance use. DBT evolved into a process in which the therapist and client work with acceptance and change-oriented strategies, and ultimately balance and synthesize them, in a manner comparable to the philosophical dialectical process of hypothesis and antithesis, followed by synthesis. DBT dialectical behavior therapy dialectical behavioral therapies behavioral therapy