Outline

• Overview of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
  • Why Dialectics and what does that mean anyway?
  • Common “Dialectical Dilemmas”
  • Current research on using DBT skills portion of full DBT program
• Core DBT Skills Training
  • Demographics and structure
  • Rules of DBT Skills Training Group
  • Targets of DBT Skills Training Group
  • Roles of facilitators
• Mindfulness Skills
  • Become more mindful of thoughts, feelings and urges and acting with intuition
  • Decrease the amount of judgments clients make about themselves and others
  • Participating and “throwing yourself in” (with a wise mind of course)
  • Skills: Observe, describe, participate
• Distress Tolerance Skills
  • Tolerate and survive a crisis (without making it worse)
  • “Distract” themselves in their attempts to regulate their emotions
  • “Radically Accepting” the crisis as it is and letting go of the struggle
  • Self-soothing the five senses in times of a crisis
  • Skills: TIPP, STOP
  • Wise Mind ACCEPTS
• Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills
  • Skills to help clients make requests and say NO (and have it stick)
  • Teaching clients how to improve and attend to relationships
  • Self-respect in the client and the respect others have for them
  • Skills acronyms: DEAR MAN, GIVE, FAST
  • 6 levels of validation in DBT
• Emotion Regulation Skills
  • Regulate or even change intense emotions
  • Decrease emotional vulnerability
  • Skills: Check the Facts, Opposite Action, Cope Ahead
• Special Population: Skills for ANY Addiction
  • Dialectical abstinence
  • Urge surfing
  • Pros and cons
  • Alternative rebellion
  • Avoiding cues & triggers

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