DBT Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills

Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills help us manage interpersonal conflicts, build new relationships, and strengthen current ones.

In DBT, there are three sets of interpersonal effectiveness skills:

• Obtaining Objectives involves getting what we want from other people without damaging relationships, while maintaining our self-respect.

• Building Relationships and Ending Destructive Ones involves finding friends and getting them to like us, maintaining relationships, and how to end destructive relationships

• Walking the Middle Path involves balancing acceptance and change in relationships.

Although not technically DBT interpersonal skills, I’ll also be including my videos about relationships in this section:

• Interpersonal Skills and Objectives Effectiveness
• Improving Communication
• Deescalating Conflicts