Do you think dialectical behavior therapy works, and how?

Yes, It works: . . . If you attend the sessions and practice the skills. It's support-oriented, letting you acknowledge & build on skills. It's collaborative -- attending to relationships between clients & therapists, allowing issues to be worked out. It's cognitive-based, helping to identify thinking patterns that lead to suffering. It includes both individual & group sessions - best way to learn & practice.

Yes: It has been shown particularly beneficial for treatment of borderline personality disorder. Several of the key elements of dialectical behavior therapy include assessment of maladaptive patterns of behavior and responding, as well as skills training for emotion regulation and distress tolerance.