DBT Skills
Training in 5 modules to increase behavioral skills in:
Goals of DBT for children and teens:
Promote and learn mindfulness practice, emotion regulation, increasing the ability to tolerate distress with an ability to self-soothe, improve social competency and self-esteem in order to decrease impulsive and dangerous behaviors.
Goals of DBT for parents:
Improve family interactions to reduce caregiver burnout, strengthen family bonds, improve caregiver functioning and ‘wise mind’ parenting by teaching how to regulate the responses to family conflict, to share and increase social support with other caregivers, and improve problem solving ability.
Goals of DBT for young adults and adults:
Promote and learn skills in all 5 DBT modules including mindfulness practice, emotion regulation, increasing the ability to tolerate distress with an ability to self-soothe, improve social competency and self-esteem in order to decrease impulsive and dangerous behaviors.
- Mindfulness Skills necessary in order to be able to use skillful reactions, to decrease problems with confusion about feelings, to be able to recognize and allow feelings to settle.
- Distress Tolerance Skills to manage life stresses both short-term pain reduction and to practice acceptance of things that can not be changed, to decrease impulsivity or acting without thinking it through.
- Emotion Regulation Skills to manage urges, fast, intense mood changes or extreme negative moods.
- Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills patterns of difficulty: in keeping relationships, asserting and asking appropriately to get needs met, having low self-esteem and self-acceptance, or fear of abandonment in relationships.
- Walking the Middle Path Skills for problems with conflicts, polarized thinking, all or nothing thinking, settling differences in family relationships, and practicing validation.
Goals of DBT for children and teens:
Promote and learn mindfulness practice, emotion regulation, increasing the ability to tolerate distress with an ability to self-soothe, improve social competency and self-esteem in order to decrease impulsive and dangerous behaviors.
Goals of DBT for parents:
Improve family interactions to reduce caregiver burnout, strengthen family bonds, improve caregiver functioning and ‘wise mind’ parenting by teaching how to regulate the responses to family conflict, to share and increase social support with other caregivers, and improve problem solving ability.
Goals of DBT for young adults and adults:
Promote and learn skills in all 5 DBT modules including mindfulness practice, emotion regulation, increasing the ability to tolerate distress with an ability to self-soothe, improve social competency and self-esteem in order to decrease impulsive and dangerous behaviors.