Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Skills Group
DASC offers closed DBT groups for adults that meet weekly.
Each group is structured after Marsha Linehan’s Dialectical Behavioral Therapy treatment. Individuals who participate in DBT groups must also participate in individual therapy. Each group consists of four modules, including Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Emotion Regulation, and Interpersonal Effectiveness skills.
- Mindfulness: Skills to improve awareness of one’s emotional experiences, reduce judgment, and increase focus and attention to the present moment.
- Distress Tolerance: To help reduce impulsive or problematic behaviors, cope with crisis, and learn to tolerate the discomfort of situations that we cannot immediately improve without making the situation worse. This module includes acceptance based and mindfulness skills to help us bare painfully gracefully.
- Emotion Regulation: Skills to help you understand the function of emotions, enhance emotional control, and increase emotional resilience.
- Interpersonal Effectiveness: Skills to maintain and improve relationships in a way that strengthens self-respect.
Each module lasts six weeks and individuals are asked to commit to treatment one module at a time. These groups aim to support individuals who experience emotion dysregulation and desire to learn more effective coping skills.