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Dialectical Behavior Therapy

In module four, you'll learn how to use skills training to help decrease maladaptive behaviors while increasing adaptive behaviors. Jean will show you step by step how to integrate skills into your therapy practice and the methods you need to effectively teach skills training to. Sheri Van Dijk, MSW, is a mental health therapist in private practice and at Southlake Regional Health Centre in Newmarket, ON, Canada.She is the author of The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Bipolar Disorder, Don't Let Your Emotions Run Your Life for Teens, and Calming the Emotional Storm, and is coauthor of The Bipolar Workbook for Teens. Behavioral health functional assessment includes the development of strategies to support the individual based upon assessment. Completed on 1:1 basis between the individual and either a behavioral support professional with a Master's Degree or under the direction of someone with a Master's Degree. Drawing on interviews with leading animal trainers, Carrots and Sticks offers 50 case studies that explore the step-by-step training of a wide variety of companion, working and exotic animals; reviews the preparation of animals prior to training and common pitfalls encountered.

is a research-based, cognitive-behavioral treatment originally developed by Marsha Linehan at the University of Washington, to help clients with the suicidal and self-harm behaviors often seen in Borderline Personality Disorder.

Jonathan Tarbox, Doreen Granpeesheh, in Evidence-Based Treatment for Children with Autism, 2014. Behavioral Skills Training. Behavioral Skills Training (BST) is a treatment package consisting of multiple treatment components that has been proven to be effective for training a wide variety of skills, simple and complex, in people in a wide variety of populations, including children and adults.

DBT has since then been modified as a treatment for other complex and challenging mental disorders that involve emotional dysregulation, such as dual diagnoses, PTSD, eating disorders and severe mood disorders. Clients with these disorders often have great difficulty managing the emotional and relational crises of their lives because they lack the needed behavioral coping skills.

Using both acceptance and change strategies, DBT asks both patient and therapist to find a balance between accepting reality as it is, and maintaining a strong commitment to change. Such treatment is ideally offered in an environment that is warm and validating, while attempting to offer enough challenge and guidance to effect behavioral change and reduction of harmful behaviors. The goal is to help clients create “a life worth living.”

Research has shown that DBT treatment is most effective when it includes 1. individual therapy, 2. a weekly skills training group and 3. help with skills application by phone with the individual therapist between sessions. At MTA, we offer all three components. For information about individual DBT therapy or skills application and coaching, please contact us.

Weekly DBT skills training groups are didactic groups that use a step-by-step format to teach four sets of skills: mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, emotion regulation, and distress tolerance.

• Mindfulness: The ability to take control of your mind instead of having your mind control you. Mindfulness helps direct your attention through the process of observing, describing and participating from a nonjudgmental perspective. This allows for more objective, effective, and meaningful experiences in the here and now.
• Interpersonal Effectiveness: The ability to communicate and express yourself effectively while maintaining an understanding and a commitment to your objectives, your relationship to the person(s) and your self-respect.
• Emotion Regulation: The ability to regulate your emotions by understanding the relationship between thoughts, feelings, body sensations and behaviors. As well as, being aware of vulnerability factors related to emotional states such as; adequate sleep, balanced eating, appropriate medication usage, self-care, exercise and incorporating positive experiences in your daily life.
• Distress Tolerance: The ability to get through an already difficult time without making it worse. Self-destructive behaviors are often a result of ineffective ways of dealing with painful emotions. Distress tolerance teaches the use of distraction, radical acceptance and pros/cons as alternatives.

These topics are covered through leader presentation, group discussion, handout materials, structured homework and homework review. For more information about DBT please see www.behavioraltech.com.

Parents, are there behaviors in which you and your child or teenager engages in that repeatedly lead to conflict? Have you tried to manage these behaviors through punishment, only to find that they continue to occur time and again? If you answered “yes” to the above questions, a behavioral plan may be a helpful tool. Behavioral plans provide rewards for positive behaviors when they occur and consequences when they do not take place.

Please note that if you and your child or teenager have a high-conflict relationship at present, you may want to discuss and develop your behavioral plan with the support of your therapist.

The steps to implementing a behavioral plan are simple. However, the most important and challenging piece is consistent follow through. Once you have defined the terms of the behavioral plan, it is essential that you review with your child or teen, their progress on a daily basis, especially at the beginning of implementing it.

Step 1: Concretely define, with your child or teen, the behaviors you would like to see increase. For example, “John will follow directions from his parents” would be too vague, as it cannot be measured and leaves room for interpretation, debate, and potential conflict. A better definition would be “John will follow directions from his parents the first time they are given, and within 2 minutes.” This is a behavior that can be measured with relative objectivity (think, timer!)

Once you have defined 1-4 behaviors (we want to make this manageable for parents, children, and teenagers, alike), you are ready to move on to the next step, determining rewards and consequences.

Step 2: Have a conversation with your child or teenager about what incentives would be motivating for them. Maybe they want to work for a special Lego set, a dinner at their favorite restaurant, or time with their friends. Find what is authentically rewarding to them. Next, determine what consequences would be for them. What are the things that they really dislike? Scrubbing the bathtub? Spending a weekend without their friends?

Step 3: Once you have defined the behaviors to increase, rewards, and consequences, now is the time to ascribe value to each behavior. For example, you may decide that “John will follow directions from his parents the first time they are given, and within 2 minutes” is worth 1 point. In order to earn his first reward of dinner at his favorite restaurant, he will need to earn 10 points. However, if he does not follow directions from his parents the first time they are given, and within 2 minutes on two occasions (equal to 2 points), he will have to scrub the bathtub.

Step 4: Now is the hard work! Make sure to track your child or teenager’s progress and points on a daily or nightly basis. This consistency is key to the behavioral plan’s effectiveness.

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Finally, if there are behaviors that you have identified as wanting to change as a parent, this behavioral plan template (below) can also be used to monitor your own behavior!

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