About Finding the Middle Path (Be Drama Free Through DBT!)
Short discussions about Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) coping skills that can be used when working with adolescents to help keep your peace of mind and role model positive behavior.
Episode 10A: Turning the Mind and Willingness over Willfulness (with background music)
In this episode, we continue our journey in acceptance skills with Turning the Mind and Willingness over Willfulness. We also discuss how to incorporate these skills in the workplace and some of the challenges you might face when teaching the skills to teenagers. Happy listening!
17 Jul 2022
Episode 10B: Turning the Mind and Willingness over Willfulness (no background music)
In this episode, we continue our journey in acceptance with Turning the Mind and Willingness over Willfulness. We also explore how to incorporate these skills into the workplace and the challenges you might face when teaching the skills to teenagers. Happy listening!
19 Jun 2022
Episode 9b: Radical Acceptance (no background music)
In this episode, we learn about the optional responses to a serious problem coming into your life, which leads us to the skill for the episode: Radical Acceptance! This version is voice only, with no background music.
19 Jun 2022
Episode 9: Radical Acceptance
In this episode, we talk about the 5 optional responses when a serious problem comes into your life, which leads us to the skill for the episode: radical acceptance! Also, I got a request to offer episodes without the background music for those that find it too distracting. If you start seeing the episodes release twice, that's the difference. Enjoy!
28 May 2022
Episode 8: IMPROVE and Self-Soothe
We continue our journey through distress tolerance skills with IMPROVE and Self-soothe. IMPROVE is used to make each moment better and can be used when in distress or as a preventative measure. Self-soothe involves using your 6 senses to calm yourself and can also be used in distress or as a preventative measure.
6 May 2022
Episode 7: ACCEPTS and TIPP
In this episode, we start learning skills from the distress tolerance module. This module is made up of two types of skills: crisis survival and distress tolerance. We kick it off with the ACCEPTS skill, used for distracting with Wise Mind, and the TIPP skill, used to reduce strong emotional arousal.
16 Apr 2022
Episode 6: Opposite Action
In this episode, we learn how to change the behavioral component of an emotion by taking opposite action. We'll talk about emotions and urges, the opposite action approach, get ourselves an easy new acronym, and learn how to tell if an emotion "fits the facts" or not!
28 Mar 2022
Episode 5: ABC PLEASE and HALT skills
We continue our journey in emotion regulation with ABC PLEASE, to reduce vulnerability to emotional mind, and a skill taken from Alcoholics Anonymous, HALT, to take a mindful moment and address possible vulnerabilities that may lead to unhealthy decisions.
11 Mar 2022
Episode 4: Urge Surfing
Learn how to use mindfulness to surf your emotions and urges, how to surf at work, and tips for helping teenagers learn how to surf.
25 Feb 2022
Episode 3: Introduction to Emotion Regulation and Emotion Identification and Description
Learn the benefits of emotion regulation, the DBT model of emotions, and how the model of emotions relates to you and the teens you work with.
16 Feb 2022
Episode 2: What and How skills
Learn how to access your Wise Mind using the What and How skills and discover the difficulties a teenager might face while trying to learn and practice these skills.
12 Feb 2022
BONUS: Coping with Grief using DBT
Over the summer, I did a virtual presentation for the Yurok Tribe about using DBT to deal with grief. It was tailored for native youth but the information can be helpful for everyone so I thought I'd post it. This episode is probably best enjoyed on YouTube (so you can see the slides and my lovely face), so if you have the time, check it out on there. Enjoy!
8 Feb 2022
Episode 1: What is DBT and Intro to Mindfulness
Learn a little about dialectical behavior therapy, mindfulness, and using it all when working with teens. *This is my first try and it is quite obvious that I'm working off a PowerPoint. The video form will be available at some point if you're a visual person* one more thing, I forgot the word "disorder" in substance use disorder professional. I'm not a professional substance user. Just had to clear that up!
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