The original Skills Training Handouts and Worksheets are used in our skills support groups as the basis for further discussion.
You may find it helpful to purchase your own copy although this is not a requirement to attend.
It is available from Amazon ISBN 978-1572307810
The Goals of Orientation
Understand General Goal of DBT
Understand Behaviours to Decrease
Identify Skills to Increase
Describe Personal Goals
Handouts required for Orientation
1. Goals of Skills Training
1A. Options for Solving Any Problem
2. Overview: Introduction to Skills Training
3. Guidelines for Skills Training
4. Assumptions
5. Biosocial Theory
6. Analysing Behaviour Overview
7. Chain Analysis
8. Missing-Links Analysis
The Goals of Core Mindfulness
Reduce Suffering and Increase Happiness
Increase Control of Your Mind
Experience Reality As It Is
Handouts required for Core Mindfulness
1. Goals of Mindfulness Practice
1A. Mindfulness Definitions
2. Core Mindfulness Skills Overview
3. Wise Mind: States of Mind
4. WHAT Skills
5. HOW Skills
The Goals of Emotion Regulation
Understand and Name Your Emotions
Decrease the Frequency of Unwanted Emotions
Decrease Emotional Vulnerability
Decrease Emotional Suffering
Handouts required for Emotion Regulation
2. Understanding and Naming Emotions Overview
3. The Function of Emotions
4. What Makes It Hard to Regulate Emotions
5. A Model for Describing Emotions
6. Ways to Describe Emotions
7. Changing Emotional Responses Overview
8. Check the Facts
9. Deciding between Opposite Action and Problem Solving
10. Problem Solving
11. Figuring Out Opposite Actions
12. Problem Solving
13. Reviewing Opposite Action and Problem Solving
14. Overview of Reducing Emotional Vulnerability
15. Accumulating Positive Emotions: Short Term
16. Pleasant Events List
17. Accumulating Positive Emotions: Long Term
18. Values and Priorities
19. Build Mastery and Cope Ahead
20. The PLEASE Skills
21. Managing Difficult Emotions Overview
22. Mindfulness of Current Emotions
23. Managing Extreme Emotions
24. Troubleshooting Emotion Regulation Skills
The Goals of Distress Tolerance
Survive Crisis Situations
(without making them worse)
Accept Reality
Become Free
Handouts required for Distress Tolerance
2. Overview of Crisis Survival Skills
3. When to use Crisis Survival Skills
4. STOP Skill
5. Pros and Cons
6. TIP Skills
7. Distracting
8. Self-Soothing
9. Improving the Moment
10. Reality Acceptance Skills Overview
11. Radical Acceptance
12. Turning the Mind
13. Willingness
14. Half-Smiling and Willing Hands
15. Mindfulness of Current Thoughts
The Goals of Interpersonal Effectiveness
Be Skillful in Getting What You Want and Need from Others
Build Relationships and End Destructive Ones
Walk the Middle Path
Handouts required for Interpersonal Effectiveness
2. Factors that get in the way
3. Overview of Obtaining Ojectives Skillfully
4. Clarifying Goals in Interpersonal Situations
5. DEAR MAN
6. GIVE
7. FAST
8. Options for Intensity and Factors to Consider
9. Troubleshooting the Skills
10. Overview of Building Relationships and Ending Destructive Ones
11. Finding and Getting People to Like You
12. Mindfulness of Others
13. Ending Relationships
14. Walking the Middle Path Overview
15. Dialectics
16. How to Think and Act Dialectically
17. Validation
18. Guide to Validation
19. Recovering from Invalidation
20. Increasing the Probability of Behaviours You Want
21. Decreasing or Stopping Unwanted Behaviours
22. Tips for Using Behaviour Change Strategies Effectively