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What is Dialectical Behavior Therapy?
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DBT skills have also proved to be effective in helping individuals with other personality disorders, eating disorders, substance abuse issues, and anxiety and mood disorders be more successful in managing their lives.
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Treatment Modalities Treatment includes an hour of individual psychotherapy and two hours of psycho-educational skills training group on a weekly basis. Additional services include:
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| The Four Modules of DBT | |||
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Skills training groups are offered in four modules: Core mindfulness, Distress tolerance, Emotional regulation and Interpersonal effectiveness. New participants are enrolled at the beginning of each module. Each of the modules starts with the 2 week Core Mindfulness module. The class teaches six core skills that focus on learning how to focus attention; being mindful of information the client chooses to focus on and unmindful of information that is not helpful or effective in meeting their goals. |
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| In the Interpersonal Effectiveness module, participants are taught how to formulate and prioritize specific goals in interpersonal interactions. Clients learn about factors that reduce interpersonal effectiveness. They learn useful methods for saying no and asking for what they need; including ways to express themselves in a gentle, interested and easy manner while appearing confident. Participants are taught a system for negotiating their wants and presenting their point of view to build strong relationships and self-respect. | |||
| In the Emotional Regulation module, participants learn how to be aware of, define, and use private emotional experiences as valuable information in making decisions and communicating with others. They are taught the invaluable role that emotion plays in interpersonal interactions and are coached in methods to reduce emotional vulnerability, increase positive emotions and be unmindful of worries. | |||
| In the Distress Tolerance module, participants are taught how to manage anxiety and delay immediate behavioral responses when faced with high stress or crisis situations. We teach relaxation skills, self-soothing with the five senses, distraction, improving the moment, and radical acceptance. | |||
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Each of our DBT Mid-Peninsula Team clinicians is also available for weekly individual DBT psychotherapy sessions where clients learn to integrate and apply the teachings and skills from the skills training groups into their daily lives. For clients that are not actively suicidal and do not exhibit dangerous self-harm behaviors we also work collaboratively with out-of-team therapists if their clients wish to continue weekly individual therapy with them while participating in our DBT skills training groups. The primary therapist must be willing to accept calls for emergency phone consultations and check client’s diary cards weekly to assist clients in managing their target behaviors. Handouts of client’s weekly skills training materials will be made available to out-of team therapists upon request. |
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| DBT Treatment Goals | |||
Once an individual
enters our DBT program a treatment plan is developed with the therapist
and individual target behaviors are identified for each client.
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| Commitment of Participants | |||
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To participate in the DBT program and create
a life worth living an individual must: |
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| Those accepted must
also have: • Transportation to and from program (and backup plan) • Day care arrangements (and backup plan) • Telephone (or 24-hour access to phone – important for telephone coaching)) • Willingness to obtain one support person |
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DBT Mid-Peninsula Team
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