DBT Interpersonal Skills | MARSHA LINEHAN

Interpersonal skills um have several components. It's how to get what you want. How to get what you want while you maintain a relationship and how to get what you want. Maintain a relationship and keep your own self-respect. So it has those three dimensions to it.

So there's three sets of skills and how to know when to use what skill and how to know when to ask and how to know when to say no. So teaches a lot about timing.

We've now added on to these skills uh in our new version which is how to find people and get them to like you, how to validate others, how to join conversations, um how much to self-disclose or not self-disclose. So, it's got all these sorts of things in them.

We also have in the interpersonal skills now we have a set of what's called walking the middle path skills. uh how to validate other people, how to be dialectical, which means not going to extremes, how to see other people's point of view and your point of view at the same time. A a number of skills like that are in that section.