Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills

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Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills
Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes PhD, LPC-MHSP, LMHC
Executive Director, AllCEUs

Based in part on
- Doing Dialectical Behavior Therapy: A Practical Guide by Kelly Koerner (Guilford Press)
- The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook (New Harbinger Publications)
- DBT Made Simple (New Harbinger Publications)
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- DBT for Substance Abusers

Objectives
- Why was DBT created
- Understanding Emotional Dysregulation
- Identify DBT assumptions about clients and therapists
- Explore skills to help clients learn
- Distress Tolerance
- Emotional Regulation
- Interpersonal Effectiveness

Summary
- Many disorders involve some amount of emotional dysregulation
- That dysregulation can be caused by high sensitivity and reactivity due to:
- Innate characteristics and poor environmental fit
- External traumas and lack of support
- DBT seeks first to help the person replace self-defeating behaviors with self-care behaviors
- Emotional regulation and interpersonal effectiveness are addressed in the second phase of treatment
- A variety of tools are imparted to clients to help them
- Set SMART goals
- Identify and understand emotions and their functions
- Decrease unwanted emotional and behavioral responses
- Develop a more effective, compassionate and supportive relationship with self and others
- Not every tool will work for every person. It takes some experimentation

TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
02:22 WHy was DBT created
13:22 Primary invalidation
18:20 Secondary trauma
23:55 DBT Assumptions
31:31 Core Mindfulness
36:03 Distress Tolerance
47:38 Emotion Regulation
52:55 Interpersonal Effectiveness

[shadowsidesoamplified]

I have done the primary invalidation to my child and I feel absolutely horrible about it. I’m trying to be a better person and mother she deserves

[ZebraZabrina]

I have learned and realized so much about my BPD, hypersensitivity and childhood trauma more than I ever have…everything makes so much sense now…I need to contact a therapist…thank you💕

[FreakyKitten]

I have had little to no professional help recently & I couldn't express how grateful I am for your videos. Although I've self therapised myself before; different trauma calls for different & better healing tactics. And accepting I did the best I could helping myself as a child. You have taught me a great deal that internet reading alone can't always do. Thank you

[robincrowflies]

Wow, this is so great. I've been struggling with BPD all my adult life (possibly as far back as 10 years old), without therapy. I have stumbled upon many of these techniques, but this is a bonanza. Thank you.

[TwoBlackRings]

This video is valuable beyond words. The dynamic of sufferers being triggered by the very environments that invalidate them screams emotional abuse. Even well-intentioned persons, if uninformed are not able to adecuately support persons in pain if they cannot understand the validity of the condition. Thank you Dr. Snipes for raising awareness of the topic!

[emsomeo]

You are the greatest teacher in my life, it is so pleasant to listen to your videos every single day.

[joaquinromolor]

7 years taking this class, a new record to stay consistent and proactive in learning new techniques of coping skills.
Thank you Doctor it's cool.

[billthelen]

I went through a Dialectical Behavioral Therapy course over 12 years ago. I expect myself to be perfect because I have these skills. When I do not use these skills, I feel like a failure. The Tip exercise and the Accepts exercise are excellent techniques for distress tolerance. I particularly like to self-soothe through burning incense or listening to music. The 5-4-3-2-1 exercise is great to do. Since I have found your video channel, your videos have been a very helpful distress tolerance tool.

[AMilliNUN]

Hahahaha “if the chainsaw is out, they know I need space”. I totally feel that. I recently got diagnosed with BPD and I’ve been really trying to regulate my moods. Thank you for making this lesson available online.

[nafsii]

im 21. someone said i could benefit from this. i do not have any behavioural diagnosis whatsoever, just repeated cycle of self sabotage which have hurt a lot of people. thank you for this

[jenniferthilthorpe]

This was my first video learning about Dpt. It was describing me to a T. It was very emotional to go through the video. This was very educational. Thank you.

[nice-boat]

This channel is really great I have been spending an hour a night listening no matter what and it does help

[pappy]

Thank you so much for this video. My son is in a really bad place and an emotional wreck. We've been waiting 18 months to get him DBT but there's still no light at the end of the tunnel. This video has helped me so much and I have hope that I can try to help him now I have a better understanding of what DBT is and how it's used. Thank you

[come.tothinkoffit]

This is amazing thank you kindly for thanking the time to create and share this. I recently paid for a DBT course that wasnt anywhere near as practical and informative as this. Thanks again.

[smoopsirl]

Thanks for putting this together.

I recently started dating someone with BPD, she told me kn our first date but I honestly didn't know a lot about it. Amazing first part of the relationship but now it's revolved round to a difficult spell where by I don't know where I stand. Helping to understand how her mind works is helping, and if it doesn't work out with her then I have this knowledge to use on another person.

Really sucks though, because I just want to be loved

[eoinMB]

"If you try to save your life you'll lose it but if you give up your life you'll save problem at its core, is fear and trying to protect yourself from harm. The solution is to stop all activities and thoughts that are designed to protect yourself, give up your life.

[amrthefighter]

You are a very kind and knowledgeable strong person doctor.

Love and blessings from Egypt

[julinaonYT]

DBT helped me a lot learning to regulate (AuDHD) thanks to all the teachers and therapists who keep the knowledge out there for us. 🌹 💚

[say_o_la]

Exquisite. There are no words to describe how much content I received from this video. If only my UNI could keep up 😅

[Shooketh__]

40:35 I did many of these things to myself without knowing its a part of distress training, I'm happy for myself