Posted by alexandra_k on December 17, 2004, at 15:42:33
In reply to DBT...CubicMe??-others, posted by B2Chica on December 17, 2004, at 10:57:32
I did one year of DBT group. It is very structured. You work through the skills training manuel
http://faculty.washington.edu/linehan/MML'sd%20Books.htm
twice. I have heard that sometimes they will only work through it once, but then you miss skills if you miss a group, or if you aren't paying attention because of personal crisis or whatever.You do a mindfulness excercise to start (takes a couple of minutes). Then you go around and say something about how you found the exercise. Then you have to go around and go through your diary card which you had to record which skills you practiced on which days. And say a bit about how your week went.
The skills are divided into four sections:
Mindfulness skills (meditation, relaxation, calming awareness)
Interpersonal skills
Emotion Regulation
and.... heh heh, its been a while, maybe there were only 3...Then we had a cigarette break.
Then the next hour we spent listening to one of the trainers tell us about the new skill. Then we practiced it for a while.And that was it. We had one 2 hour session per week, but I think different people vary the length and frequency of group. That is the basic structure, though, of DBT skills training group.
I hated going to group.
I didn't much like the others (though they grew on me rather a lot to be sure). I didn't want to tell them anything personal. You can hang back to a certain extent, and that is always helped by some people who just LOVE group and have difficulty shutting up.All in all it was worth it though. In hindsight, though at the time I hated it...
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