Absolutely not! In multi-family DBT we have the following beliefs/assumptions about everyone who attends the program: Clients are doing the best they can, Clients want to improve, Clients need to do better, try harder, and be more motivated to change, Clients may not have caused all of their own problems but they have to solve them anyway, The lives of suicidal, borderline individuals are unbearable as they are currently being lived, Clients must learn new behaviors in all relevant contexts, Clients cannot fail in therapy