These are the 4 modules taught in skills training
Mindfulness
Distress Tolerance
Emotion Regulation
Interpersonal Effectiveness
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
Phones are asked to be this way during group
Down and out of sight
People are doing this
The best they can
These are the goals of mindfulness
1) reduce suffering and increase happiness
2) Increase control of your mind
3) Experience reality as it is
The modes of DBT treatment
Individual therapy
Skills training group
Phone coaching
Clinician case consultation
You aren't out of skills training group until you hit this number of misses
4
Group members don't ask other groups members to hold these
Secrets
New behavior has to be learned in this way
all relevant contexts.
Mindfulness is defined as
paying attention, in a particular way, without judgment as if your life depended upon it-Jon Kabat-Zinn
This is what you walk through with your therapist if you engage in a target beahvior
Behavior chain
DBT team members asked you to do this if you are running late or miss group
Call or message us
These types of relationships are not allowed in skills training group
Private and sexual relationships
All behavior is this
This is the area of the brain that mindfulness impacts to reduce symptoms of emotion dysregulation
Pre-Frontal Cortex
This theory explains the development of Borderline Personality Disorder
Biosocial
If you miss, this is still expected to be completed
Homework
Participants in skills training don't tempt other members to engage in these
problem behaviors or ineffective methods of coping
People need to do this for change
This amount of daily mindfulness practice time has been found to produce results in 8 weeks
5 miinutes
Judgment
This is how DBT clinicians ask you to complete your homework in this format
Written out
Participants in skills training are asked to offer this to each other during their time in skills training group
Support
People may not have caused their own problems...
and they have to solve them anyway
Wise
Emotion
Reason