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    • Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Couples
    • Resources for Families, Couples & Friends
    • Client Forms & Worksheets
    • Online Training Information
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    • Blog: Head, Heart & Hands
    • Blog for Fellow Therapists
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​Dialectical behavior therapy
​for families & Friends

 DBT Family Skills Training 

We will again offer the condensed format (a series of three Saturday morning sessions) which will largely cover the same content as the 12 week class. Past participants can pick up a session they missed in the last cycle or repeat a session they value. It is fine to attend 1, 2, 3 or all 4 of the sessions in this series.  Each session is designed to train participants in using particular DBT skills in mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness or emotion regulation/distress tolerance, independent of the other sessions. Also, the DBT Skills for Couples will be offered on Tuesday Evenings during the year.

Each DBT FST session begins with a mindfulness exercise. You might view this course as the mindfulness-based emotion regulation class you wished you had had years ago. The teaching and exercises will be structured to assist each participant with their particular relationship patterns and target behaviors. There will be time for questions to facilitate the learning and putting the skills into practice. This is a format of a class or a seminar. This is not a therapy group which engages interpersonal processing between group members or members of a couple/family. The focus is on becoming more skillful, rather than processing the events of the week. Referrals for psycho-therapeutic support can be arranged. 

Course objectives below.
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Who can benefit: 
Past participants have come to gain essential skills to support themselves and their emotionally sensitive loved ones. This includes their children, their siblings, their partners, their friends and their parents. Some of these loved ones have been in standard DBT Skills Groups, while many have not (yet). Participants are a diverse blend of adults with a range of age, race, gender identity, sexual identity, therapy experience, and interpersonal styles/levels of struggle. All seek to learn, to become more skillful, and are willing to commit to actively apply the skills from each session.  

As part of the mission of Triangle Area DBT (TADBiT), there will be some "participant-observer" slots available for mental health professionals who want to become more familiar with applying DBT skills with families and couples.  

When and Where:
Saturdays, 8:45am-1pm. Location TBD, typically in Chapel Hill/Carrboro. 
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​Introduction to DBT Skills for Families & Friends
Half-Day Workshop TBA.

More information on objectives can be found here.

​DBT Family Skills Training Schedule -
​Four Saturdays in Spring 2021 TBA.


Class 1, February/March TBA -  Core Mindfulness for Increasing Family Balance and Effectiveness

Class 2, February/March TBA -  Interpersonal Effectiveness and the Benefits of Validating 

Class 3, Spring TBA -  Emotion Regulation and Distress Tolerance (How to NOT Make Things Worse)

Class 4, Spring TBA - The ABCs of Managing Relationship Problems (prereq: attend at least one of the prior three sessions)

The fee for each 4 hour session is $120 per person. 
Participants will be sent handouts and worksheets in preparation for each session. 
* Participants are typically adults. I would not recommend this class for children under 16 years old. For adolescents, I would suggest the DBT Teen Skills Groups. More information at www.triangleareadbt.com/dbt-adolescents-groups
* Sliding scale is available on request for financial need or multiple family members. We do not want the expense to prevent interested family members or friends from gaining the skills they seek.


Registration
  • Please respond indicating which sessions you want to attend and how many participants will be coming. Email John at jmaderlmft@gmail.com.
  • You may mail a check for your fees written to CIP addressed to:  CIP, 1506 East Franklin Street Suite 202, Chapel Hill NC 27514
Flyer  - DBT FST Spring 2019

​DBT Family Skills Training (FST) has two goals for family members and friends:
  1. to learn about how emotional sensitivity and dysregulation impact our relationships with loved ones and
  2. to learn effective relationship and self management skills.
Learning these skills, we can enhance our effectiveness, applying greater compassion and wisdom in our daily lives so we can more fully experience and participate in life.

We have all experienced times of emotional vulnerability and sensitivity and can benefit from becoming more skillful. This is especially true when we are experiencing a negative emotional state, such as anger, fear, sadness or shame. Sharing a life with an emotionally sensitive family member can be delightful, as well as challenging, aggravating and bewildering. 
Family members and friends often feel at a loss to know how to manage their own feelings and needs while still remaining connected and caring to these sensitive folks. Each of these classes provide friends, family members or partners with the skills to better cope and support their loved one.
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 Appreciations!
​The DBT Family Skills Training is based on the work of Perry Hoffman, Alan Fruzzetti, Marsha Linehan and Shari Manning. 
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Register for DBT Family Skills Training Sessions

Key Learning Objectives for DBT Family Skills Training

Objective 1: Introduction to DBT Family Skills Therapy (FST)
  • The goals of FST and how it relates to DBT
  • Understanding the ongoing, key dialectical patterns in family functioning
  • Defining emotional sensitivity,  borderline personality disorder and recognizing the “Red Zone” of imbalance and emotional vulnerability
  • The central, reciprocal impact of emotion dysregulation in emotionally vulnerable individuals and invalidating environments
  • The four working assumptions in relationships that matter
Objective 2: Core Mindfulness Skills I. Self-awareness in Relationship
  • Understanding the four primary states of mind and how these play out in relationships
  • Identifying our style of connecting with the styles of our loved ones
  • Appreciating the impact of the “emotional climate” of our home life on our states of mind, especially emotion mind
Objective 3: Core Mindfulness Skills II. What to Do?
  • Mindful awareness methods to access and to express our Wise/Balanced Mind”
  • The essential skill of mindful observing
  • Mindful describing to put words to our inner experience, to validate, and to communicate more accurately
  • Participating more mindfully, openly, and deeply to truly engage our relationships
Objective 4: Core Mindfulness Skills III. How to Do?
  • Increasing awareness of our judging 
  • Learning to non-judgmentally describe
  • How to one-mindfully direct our attention in relationship
  • Increasing effective ways of relating with the priority on “What’s Effective/What Works?”
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Objective 5: Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills I. DBT Skills for Effective Relating
  • Applying Core Mindfulness skills in our relationships
  • The role of family beliefs, secrets, myths
  • Clarifying goals and priorities for our objectives, relationships, and self respect needs
Objective 6: Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills II.  DBT Skills for Effective Relating 
  • How emotion dysregulation impacts family relationships and how to effectively respond
  • The DBT communication skills of DEAR MAN with GIVE to care for our relationship and FAST to respect ourselves
Objective 7 : Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills III. Validate, Validate, Validate
  • DBT Bio-Social Theory and empathy
  • Understanding the results of invalidation
  • How to use Validation as an essential skill in relating and for emotion dysregulation
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Objective 8:  Emotion Regulation Skills I. Mindfully Observing & Describing the Suffering Cycle
  • Understanding DBT as a MBER therapy
  • Understanding the functions of emotions
  • Using Mindfulness to recognize the pattern or “ABC chain” of emotions and consequent behaviors
  • The four goals of emotion regulation as support and guide
Objective 9:  Emotion Regulation Skills II. Interrupting the Suffering Cycle
  • Using Mindfulness to understand intense emotions
  • Applying skills to decrease our vulnerability to negative emotions
  • Applying skills to decrease our emotional suffering and reactivity with others
Objective 10:  Distress Tolerance Skills
  • Skillful strategies to effectively accept (when necessary), not resist or judge challenging situations
  • Replacing old mood-dependent, self-defeating behaviors with effective, crisis-survival skills
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Objective 11:  Applying Basic Behavioral Principles for Family Relationships 
  • Recognizing the context that triggers behavior problems 
  • Recognizing the function of problem behaviors and how we might unintentionally reinforce them
  • Using the ABC Model or Behavior Chain Analysis to more effectively understand and intervene in a problem behavior pattern
* Summary/Review of Applying DBT Skills in  Our Most Important Relationships
  • Fine-tuning our Behavior Chain Analyses
  • Reviewing the DBT FST skills and strategies in light of individual Values, Goals and Actions
  • Discuss the most important skills that each member wants to commit to practice

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