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Introduction to Distress Tolerance Skills
The lesson link will open the guided educational lesson based on the book DBT Skills Training Manual. The handout link will open a PDF document from the book DBT Skills Training Handouts and Worksheets. The video link will open a YouTube video. Warning!: If you do not have a YouTube Premium membership subscription, there will be advertisements. In the future, the videos from YouTube will be replaced by self-published videos embedded in the website page, (NO ADS!).
Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills
- Overview
- Goals
- Factors Reducing Interpersonal Effectiveness
- Core Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills
- Videos and Lessons
- Clarifying Goals in Interpersonal Situations
- Objectives Effectiveness Skills: DEAR MAN
- Relationship Effectiveness Skills: GIVE
- Self-Respect Effectiveness Skills: FAST
- Evaluating Your Options: How Intensely to Ask or Say No
- Troubleshooting Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills
- Building Healthy Relationships and Ending Destructive Ones
- Skills for Finding Potential Friends
- Mindfulness of Others
- How to End Relationships
- Walking the Middle Path Lessons
- [Video] Introduction to Heart Math by Dr. Jennifer May
- [Video] Introduction to Middle Path and Dialectics by Dr. Jennifer May
- [Video] Middle Path: Dialectic Examples by Dr. Jennifer May
- [Video] Middle Path: Validation by Dr. Jennifer May
- [Video] Middle Path: Making Changes with Behaviorism by Dr. Jennifer May
- [Video] Middle Path: Strength or Weakness? by Dr. Jennifer May
- Walking the Middle Path Skills
- Dialectics
- Validation Skills
- Strategies for Changing Behavior