Goals Of Skill Training
What is the first specific goals for a behavior decrease?
1.Mindfulness; emptiness, being out of touch with self and others; judgementalness.
Skill to increase? Mindfulness skills.
What is the first option to solve a problem?
SOLVE THE PROBLEM!
Change the situation....or avoid, leave, or get out of the situation for good!
TO PROBLEM SOLVE:
Use interpersonal effectiveness skills. Walking the middle path, use problem solving skills.
Whats number 1?
1. Participants who drop out of skills training are NOT OUT of skills training.
a. The only way out is to miss four scheduled sessions of skills training in a row.
What is emotional vulnerability?
It is BIOLOGICAL. It's simply how people are born. They are more sensitive to emotional stimuli; they can detect subtle emotional information in the environment that others don't even notice. They experience emotions much more often that others, they seem to hit for no reason and out of the blue. They have more intense emotions. Their emotions can hit like a ton of bricks and be more long lasting.
What is a behavior chain?
It analyzes ineffective behaviors. This chain analysis explores the chain of events and consequences in order to change them. It helps you figure out how to repair the damage.
What is the second specific behaviors to decrease?
2. Interpersonal conflict and stress; loneliness
Skill to increase? Interpersonal effectiveness skills.
What is the second option to solve a problem?
FEEL BETTER ABOUT THE PROBLEM
Change (or regulate) your emotional response to the problem
TO FEEL BETTER ABOUT THE PROBLEM:
Use emotion regulation sklills
Whats number 2?
2. Participations who join skills training group support each other and:
a. Keep names of other participations and information obtained during sessions confidential.
b. come to each group session on time and stay until the end.
c. make every effort to practice skills between sessions
d. validate each other, avoid judging each other, and assume the best about each other.
e. give helpful, noncritical feedback when asked.
f. are willing to accept help from a person they ask or call for help.
What is impulsivity in biosocial theory?
What is a missing-link analysis?
This helps your identify what got in the way of doing things you needed or hoped to do, things you agreed to do, or things others expected you to do. It also helps problem-solve for the future.
What is the third specific behavior to decrease?
3. Absence of flexibility; difficulties with change.
Skill to increase? Emotion regulation skills.
What is the third option to solve the problem?
TOLERATE THE PROBLEM
Accept and tolerate both the problem and your response to the problem
TO TOLERATE THE PROBLEM:
Use distress tolerance and mindfulness skills
Whats number 3?
Participations who join skills training group:
a. call ahead of time if they are going to be late or miss session.
What is an invalidating social environment?
This can make it very hard to regulate emotions.
This environment doesn't seem to understand your emotions. It tells you your emotions are invalid, weird, or bad. It often ignores your emotional reactions and does nothing to help you. It may say things like "don't be such a baby!", "quit your blubbering", "quit being such a chicken and just solve the problem." or "normal people don't get this frustrated"
People who invalidate are often doing the best they can. They may not know how to validate or how important it is to validate, or they may be afraid to because they think you will get more emotional, not less. They may be under high stress or time pressure or they may have too few resources. They may just a poor fit between you and your social environment: You may be a tulip in a rose garden.
What are the links in a behavior chain analysis?
Vulnerability, prompting event, links, consequences, problem behaviors.
What is the fourth specific behavior to decrease?
4. Up-and-down and extreme emotions; mood-dependent behaviors, difficulties in regulation emotions.
Skill to increase? Distress tolerance.
What is the fourth option to solve a problem?
STAY MISERABLE
Or possible make it worse!
TO STAY MISERABLE
Use NO SKILLS!
Whats number 4?
Participations do not tempt others to engage in problem behaviors and:
a. do not come to sessions under the influence of drugs or alcohol
b. if drugs or alcohol have already been used, come to sessions acting and appearing clean and sober
c. do not discuss, inside or outside sessions, current or past problem behaviors that could be contagious to others
What is an ineffective social environment?
Is a big problem when you want to learn to regulate your emotions and actions.
Your environment may reinforce out-of-control emotions and actions. If people give in when you get out of control, it will be hard for you to get in control. If others command you to change, but don't coach you on how to do this, it will be hard to keep on trying.
How do you change a behavior?
Skillful, Prevention Plans, Repair
Describe skillful behaviors to replace problem links in the chain of events, develop prevention plans to reduce vulnerability to stressful events, repair important or significant consequences of the problem behavior.
What is the fifth specific behavior to decrease?
5. Impulsive behaviors; acting without thinking; difficulties accepting reality as it is; willfulness; addiction.
When would you use these options?
For ALL SITUATIONS!
Whats number 5?
Participations do not form confidential relationships with each other outside of skills training sessions and:
a. do not start a sexual or private relationships that cannot be discussed in group
b. are not partners in risky behaviors, crime, or drug use
It's transactions that count! What's the cycle?
Biology and the social environment influence the person. The person reciprocates and influences his or her social environment. The social environment reciprocates and influences the person. And so on and so on.
MYSTERY QUESTION
For the daily double:
Successfully act out a behavior chain, with all of the steps in the binder for 1,000 points!