Posted by alexandra_k on July 4, 2005, at 20:32:15
In reply to Re: how do you handle swinging between extremes? » TamaraJ, posted by partlycloudy on July 4, 2005, at 19:57:29
I did a year of DBT and it would be helpful for me to revisit the skills. I haven't got the skills training manual at the mo - but can get it from the library no problem (though I typically have to recall it).
The manual is designed to be taught over 6 months. Well, it is supposed to be taught over 12 months - but that is because they found benefit to going through all the skills twice. They are fairly holistic. You need some of the latter skills to appreciate and better master the former ones, and so it can be hard to find a point of entry in the first place.
I think it goes:
Mindfulness
Emotion Regulation
Interpersonal Effectiveness.It is supposed to take 6 months of 2 hour group therapy once per week to get through all the skills. The first hour was 'education' on the skills and the second hour was practice.
The sections are broken down into 'lectures' (or something similar). We could find out how many of those there are and think about how long we want to take with it. It might be beneficial to go a bit slowish and really try to apply them to specific situations as we go. They really can be tricky to get the hang of. Maybe one lecture a week (in which case it would take us 6 months). But people could come and go as they feel inclined. If people find it to be of use we could even keep going through them again and people can just pick up bits and pieces.
I think it could be really helpful for most people. Learning that stuff has helped improve the quality of my life immensely (yeah ok, but you should have seen me before!)
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