DBT Diary Card & Skill Tracker

There is a paper diary card on your therapist's desk right now, and it is doing more work than it has any right to. It is a simple grid — emotions down the left side, days of the week across the top, a few boxes for skills and behaviors. Nothing fancy. Your therapist photocopied it from a workbook by Marsha Linehan, the same way therapists have done for thirty years. And yet this ordinary sheet o…