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