• Guided discovery, recognize stereotyped dysfunctional patterns of interpretation
• Psychoeduaction about cognitive processes and modes of thoughts, behaviour and normal goals and needs. 
• Thought records, worksheets, and/or in-session graphic depiction of cognitive connections. 
• Labelling inaccurate inferences or distortions
• Collaborative discovery, applying curiosity in the form of behavioural tests to help the patient assess the validity or practicality of his or her beliefs, interpretations and expectations 
• Examining possible explanations for other people’s behaviour
• Scaling experiences on a continuum
• Constructing pie charts of responsibilities for actions and outcomes
• Examining data from schema diaries 
• Defining ideas or constructs relevant to the patient’s self-concept or current situation to increase self-understanding, appreciation of multidimensionality, and self-acceptance 
• Constructing coping cards

The Characteristics of MBT are:

• Patient's mental states in here and now are the object of joint attention
• Focus on the patient's mind
• Affect focused
• The therapist continually constructs an image of the mental reality of the patient
• Relates to the current events or activity/mental reality
• Near-conscious or contious content
• Active questioning
• Simple and short
• Therapist has a not-knowning stance
• DIfferences in perspective of patient and therapist are explored and respected

The phases of DBT are:

1. Severe behavioural dysfunction to behavioural control
   Goals:
   Less life-treatening behaviours, therapy interfering behaviours adn quality-of-life-interfering behaviours
   More behaviorual skills
2. Quiet desperation to nonanguished emotional experiencing
   Goals:
   Less residual axis I disorders, sequealae of childhood invalidation, unwanted outsider status and inhibited grieving/emptiness/boredom
3. Problems in living to ordinary hapiness and unhappiness
   Goals
   Less individual problems in living
   More self-respect
4. Incompleteness to freedom
   Goals
   Expanded aweareness
   Peak experiences and flow
   Spirital fulfillment