Table 1.

The content of dialectical behavioral therapy treatment sessions

Week	DBT technique	Content of session
The 1st week	Introduction of mindfulness and completion of pretest	Teaching facts about bipolar disorder, depression, mania, hypomania and psychosis, and pretest completion
The 2nd week	Mind states	Mentioning the causes of bipolar disorder
The 3rd week	Introducing medications	Commenting on medication
The 4th week	Making balance	Training to reduce vulnerability to excitement, establishing balance for eating, sleeping and exercise
The 5th week	Not judging	Teaching solutions for not judging
The 6th week	Basic acceptance	Teaching on how to get basic acceptance
The 7th week	Individual management	Managing distraction and excitement and relaxing oneself
The 8th week	Self-confirmation	Teaching and introducing the realities about excitement
The 9th week	Coping with excitement	Learning to cope with excitements and control them
The 10th week	Take a look at relationships	Learning to close up pleasurable activities to responsibilities and establishing relationships
The 11th week	Decisiveness	Training decisiveness
The 12th week	Summary and completion of posttest	Review of medical provisions, consolidation of the materials learned and using them to prevent relapse, completion of posttest

DBT: Dialectical behavioral therapy