General DBT
Guidelines
Privacy in Group
DBT Assumes
Mindfulness
100

These are the 4 modules taught in skills training

Mindfulness

Distress Tolerance

Emotion Regulation

Interpersonal Effectiveness


100

If you are running late to skills training group, this is how late you can be before you aren't allowed in the room

30 minutes

100

Phones are asked to be this way during group

Down and out of sight

100

People are doing this

The best they can

100

These are the goals of mindfulness

1) reduce suffering and increase happiness

2) Increase control of your mind

3) Experience reality as it is

200

The modes of DBT treatment 

Individual therapy

Skills training group

Phone coaching

Clinician case consultation

200

You aren't out of skills training group until you hit this number of misses

4

200

Group members don't ask other groups members to hold these

Secrets

200

New behavior has to be learned in this way 

all relevant contexts.

200

Mindfulness is defined as

paying attention, in a particular way, without judgment as if your life depended upon it-Jon Kabat-Zinn

300

This is what you walk through with your therapist if you engage in a target beahvior

Behavior chain

300

DBT team members asked you to do this if you are running late or miss group

Call or message us

300

These types of relationships are not allowed in skills training group

Private and sexual relationships

300

All behavior is this

Caused
300

This is the area of the brain that mindfulness impacts to reduce symptoms of emotion dysregulation

Pre-Frontal Cortex

400

This theory explains the development of Borderline Personality Disorder

Biosocial

400

If you miss, this is still expected to be completed

Homework

400

Participants in skills training don't tempt other members to engage in these

problem behaviors or ineffective methods of coping

400

People need to do this for change

do better, try harder, and be more motivated (unless progress is steady and at a realistic rate of improvement
400

This amount of daily mindfulness practice time has been found to produce results in 8 weeks

5 miinutes

500
A bell is rung any time this is verbalized or displayed in group

Judgment

500

This is how DBT clinicians ask you to complete your homework in this format

Written out

500

Participants in skills training are asked to offer this to each other during their time in skills training group

Support

500

People may not have caused their own problems...

and they have to solve them anyway

500
DBT explains these three states of mind

Wise

Emotion

Reason