Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, is a type of psychotherapy that teaches specific, highly efficacious skills to help people create a “life worth living”. In DBT, you learn, and utilize skills and strategies that are needed to change behavior and thought patterns that interfere with a satisfying life and emotional health.
There are three types of traditional DBT; “DBT Skills Training Group“, “Individual DBT“, and “DBT Skills Coaching“. Usually a combination of DBT skills Training Group and Individual DBT or DBT Skills Coaching are suggested for the best outcomes. The actual DBT skills that are the foundation of the DBT practice, are taught in a group setting. DBT is based on using the skills, so DBT group is an essential part of your DBT Treatment.
The group is a 24- week cycle that teaches all the DBT Skills; mindfulness, emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. Each group lasts 1.5 hours/ once a week and is structured beginning with Mindfulness (meditation), then Homework review is conducted to show how you are using your DBT skills to assess what is working and what isn’t working. Then, we teach the next skill, and Homework assigned for what to practice for the week.
Individual DBT is used in conjunction with the DBT skills training group to increase the level of care for clients with behavioral problems that significantly interfere with their quality of life. Individual DBT Therapy is highly structured and utilizes a diary card to efficiently target the most important behaviors to address in therapy. Clients discuss life threatening behaviors (When applicable); therapy interfering behaviors, and quality of life interfering behaviors all using a structured format of behavior chain analysis. This is a very highly effective behavior change therapy.
DBT Skills Coaching is used when clients need individualized intentional focus in applying and understanding the DBT skills that are being taught in the group. By only using the DBT group, client find that it does not provide the level of support that they need to really change the behaviors they are identifying as problems. DBT Skills Coaching helps clients get highly individualized support in understanding DBT skills, how to apply them in their lives, and gives one-on-one outside of group support for skills integration. Skills coaching with the DBT skills training group is a highly effective and efficient way to change and create a life worth living.
The Distress Tolerance module is a key component of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), which is designed to help individuals manage and tolerate emotional distress more effectively. This module focuses on developing skills to endure and cope with painful emotions and situations without resorting to harmful behaviors or actions.
The goal is to increase a person’s ability to handle crises and emotional pain in a healthy and adaptive manner.
3 Goals of the emotion regulation skills training module are to:
Therapy options are available depending on the provider / therapist selected.
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