1. Experience of an aversive event that fits criteria A for PTSD as defined by Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-V (DSM-V) (American Psychiatric Association \[APA\], 2013).
2. Experience symptoms of PTSD as defined by the DSM-V (APA, 2013), or subthreshold PTSD (Grubaugh et al., 2005), or experience clinically relevant symptoms as evaluated by a NET therapist.
1. Subthreshold PTSD is defined as having experienced a traumatic event (Criteria A), meeting Criteria B (re-experiencing symptoms), Criteria E (one-month symptom duration), and Criteria F (significant distress or functioning impairment) and either Criteria C (avoidance or numbing symptoms) or Criteria D (hyper arousal symptoms).
1. Experience difficulties in emotion regulation evaluated by an assigned DBT therapist.
2. Manage to commit to participating in the DBT- skills training.
You may not be if
1. Have a clinically significant low cognitive- and/or linguistic functioning that hinders the patient in understanding and answering the questions on the self-rapport instruments.
1. Being actively psychotic.
2. Have a Body Mass Index (BMI) under 17.
3. Severe dissociation.
4. An ongoing traumatic contact with the perpetrator.
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