DBT is an effective treatment approach for helping people make positive and long-term behavior changes to create a life worth living.
This DBT skills course is appropriate for ages 14 and up.
Skills group is similar to taking a class. We learn and practice skills from four modules:
DBT Skills Benefits
Mindfulness
How to focus your mind and attention
Distress tolerance
Getting through a time of distress/crisis without doing anything to make the situation worse
Emotion regulation
Decreasing emotional sensitivity/intensity, preventing unwanted emotions from starting, and stopping or reducing unwanted emotions once they start
Interpersonal effectiveness
Initiating/maintaining/repairing relationships, effectively making requests, setting boundaries and increasing/maintaining self-respect
