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Distress Tolerance Skills Training

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Introduction to Distress Tolerance Skills

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video Distress Tolerance Skills: EFT Tapping (Dr. Jennifer May)

Goals of Distress Tolerance.

Overview: Crisis Survival Skills.

Worksheet 1

Crisis Survival Skills.

Worksheet 1a

Crisis Survival Skills.

Worksheet 1b

Crisis Survival Skills.

When to Use Crisis Survival Skills

The STOP Skills

video Distress Tolerance Skills: STOP Skills (Dr. Jennifer May)

Worksheet 2

Tracking your practice of the STOP Skills (option 1)

Worksheet 2a

Tracking your practice of the STOP Skills (option 2)

video Distress Tolerance Skills: Consequences and Pros & Cons (Dr. Jennifer May)

Pros and Cons

Worksheet 3

Pros and Cons of Acting on Crisis Urges (option 1)

Worksheet 3a

Pros and Cons of Acting on Crisis Urges (option 2)

video Distress Tolerance Skills: TIPP Skills (Dr. Jennifer May)

TIP Skills – Changing Your Body Chemistry

Using Cold Water – Step by Step

video Distress Tolerance Skills: Managing Urges with Hot & Cold (Dr. Jennifer May)

Changing Body Chemistry with TIP Skills

Distress Tolerance Handout 6B: Paired Muscle Relaxation – Step by Step

Paired Muscle Relaxation

Effective Rethinking and Paired Relaxation

Effective Rethinking and Paired Relaxation

video Distress Tolerance Skills: ACCEPTS (Dr. Jennifer May)

Distracting with ACCEPTS

Recording your Distracting with Wise Mind practice: ACCEPTS (option 1)

Recording your Distracting with Wise Mind practice: ACCEPTS (option 2)

Recording your Distracting with Wise Mind practice: ACCEPTS (option 3)

video Distress Tolerance Skills: Self-Soothing with your 6 senses (Dr. Jennifer May)

Self-Soothing

Recording your Self Soothing Practice (option 1)

Recording your Self Soothing Practice (option 2)

Recording your Self Soothing Practice (option 3)

Body Scan Meditation

video Distress Tolerance Skills: IMPROVE the moment (Dr. Jennifer May)

Improving the moment – IMPROVE

Record your practice of Improving the moment with IMPROVE (option 1)

Record your practice of Improving the moment with IMPROVE (option 2)

Record your practice of Improving the moment with IMPROVE (option 3)

Sensory Awareness – Step by Step

video Distress Tolerance Skills: Review of the Skills (Dr. Jennifer May)

video Distress Tolerance Skills: The ULTIMATE Self Care Package (Dr. Jennifer May)

video Distress Tolerance Skills: Creating a Digital & Physical Toolbox (Dr. Jennifer May)

DBT Distress Tolerance Skills: Reality Acceptance

video Reality Acceptance: Allowing and Letting Be (Greg Dorter, Self-Help Toons)

Overview: Reality Acceptance Skills

Recording your practice: Reality Acceptance Skills (option 1)

Recording your practice: Reality Acceptance Skills (option 2)

Recording your practice: Reality Acceptance Skills (option 3)

video Distress Tolerance Skills: Radical Acceptance (Dr. Jennifer May)

Learning Radical Acceptance

Radical Acceptance Work

Radical Acceptance: Factors that Interfere

Practicing Radical Acceptance

Recording Radical Acceptance Practice

Turning the Mind

Willingness

Turning the Mind, Willingness, Willfulness

Half-Smiling and Willing Hands

Practicing Half-Smiling and Willing Hands

Recording your practice of Half Smiling and Willing Hands (option 1)

Recording your practice of Half Smiling and Willing Hands (option 2)

Mindfulness of Current Thoughts

Practicing Mindfulness of Current Thoughts

Recording your practice of Mindfulness of Current Thoughts (option 1)

Recording your practice of Mindfulness of Current Thoughts (option 2)

Distress Tolerance Skills for when the Crisis is Addiction

Overview: When the Crisis is Addiction

Skills when the Crisis is Addiction

Common Addictions

Dialectical Abstinence

Planning for Dialectical Abstinence

Planning for Dialectical Abstinence

Clear Mind (Addict Mind – Clean Mind)

Behaviors Characteristic of Addict Mind and of Clean Mind

From Clean Mind to Clear Mind

Community Reinforcement

Reinforcing Non-Addictive Behaviors

Burning Bridges and Building New Ones

Burning Bridges and Building New Ones

Alternative Rebellion and Adaptive Denial

Practicing Alternative Rebellion and Adaptive Denial