Groups

Benefits & Potential Outcomes from Group Therapy

1. Learn to identify and label what emotions I am feeling during group.
2. Learn to trust other people by sharing my true emotions.
3. Learning to let my guard down by trusting others rather than putting others through a “test” before I trust them.
4. Be able to experience that bonding is done mostly at emotional levels with other human beings.
5. Face the emotions, walk through them, and have this be the benefit and reason for doing something, rather than seeing an intellectual gain.
6. Recognize that others have similar emotions as I do. This is one of the reasons that makes us human; our ability to feel emotions.
7. Be able to experience a much wider range of emotions.
8. Accept this wider range of emotions as being human and believing that it is okay to have emotions.
9. Learning to “be there” for others in an emotional way and be able to validate their emotions.
10. Begin to see that when others get to know me they do like me and a friendship can begin.

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DBT Group

Key

• = week of topic
  1. = pages in the workbook PDF to use in group
     1. i) = Videos to watch and pages of skills manual (Pederson) to read before the group

 

Mindfulness

(Begin with awareness meditation, end with Wise Mind “deep well” Meditation)

• What/How of Mindfulness
  1. Pages 13-17
     1. i) Watch Mindfulness What Mindfulness How and read Skills Manual pages: 47-53

• Wise Mind & Willingness vs Willfulness
  1. Pages 18-23
     1. i) Watch Wise Mind The Dandelion Story and read Skills Skills Manual pages: 54-66

 

Distress Tolerance

• HALT, STOP, and TIPP
  1. Pages 39-40 (SUDS), 24-29
     1. i) Watch DBT Distress Tolerance STOP Skill TIP and read Skills Manual pages: 71-77, 98

• ACCEPTS, IMPROVE, Thought Modification and soothe with 5 senses
  1. Pages 30-33, 35-38, Handbook 2 page 5
     1. i) Watch Distract with Accepts IMPROVE DBT Skills: Mindfulness of Thoughts and read Skills Manual pages: 78-80, 82-84, 86-87

• Half-Smile and Willing Hands, Observe the Breath, Pros/Cons, BCA
  1. Handbook 1 Page 34, Handbook 2 page 3, Handbook 1 pages 41-42
     1. i) Watch DBT Skills: Distress Tolerance & Crisis Survival and read Skills Manual pages: 89, 92-93, 95-96

 

Mindfulness

(Begin with awareness meditation, end with Wise Mind “deep well” Meditation)

• Review distress tolerance skills (using cheat sheet) and connect mindfulness to each skill
  1. i) Watch Be More Mindful With These Simple DBT Mindfulness Skills and read Skills Manual pages: Review 58-64 and practice a few of the activities
  2. ii) Check out Mindfulness on https://dbtselfhelp.com/ to review skills learned

 

Emotional Regulation

• Understanding emotions
  1. Pages 7-13
     1. i) Watch DBT Skills: Emotion Regulation and Acceptance and read Skills Manual pages: 99-100, 114-115, 117-120

• PLEASE, O2A, ABCs
  1. Pages 14-19
     1. i) Watch PLEASE OppositeAction and read Skills Manual pages: 101-106, 109-110, 127-133

• Check the Facts, Problem Solve, VITALS (lack of motivation)
  1. Pages 19-22
     1. i) Watch Problem Solving and Action Plans in DBT and CBT and read Skills Manual pages: 183-187

 

 

Mindfulness

(Begin with awareness meditation, end with Wise Mind “deep well” Meditation)

• Review both distress tolerance and emotional regulation, connecting each skill to mindfulness
  1. i) Watch DBT Skills: Mindfulness and Radical Acceptance and read Skills Manual pages: Review 58-64 and practice a few of the activities

 

Interpersonal Effectiveness

• Intro, Values, Needs (these skills are to help you fulfill these)
  1. Pages 23-28
     1. i) Skills Manual pages: 135, 142-149

• FAST, GIVE, AND DEAR MAN
  1. Pages 32, 31 and 33, 29-30
     1. i) Watch FAST GIVE DEARMAN and read Skills Manual pages: 136-137, 151-159

• Asking, Saying No, and Boundaries (spend the last 10 or so minutes tying into how mindfulness with emotional regulation and distress tolerance helps with interpersonal effectiveness)
  1. Pages 35-36, 42-23
     1. i) Skills Manual pages: 160-170