DBT Skills Practice Through Art Course for Youth & Young Adults (Advanced)

This course is a companion to the DBT Skills Practice Through Art workbook for Youth & Young Adults – Advanced. (The workbook is sold separately and can be downloaded any time from the Workbooks section). It draws on the clinical work of Marsha Linehan, Sheri Van Dijk, Julie Brown, Jean Eich, and Susan Clark, and delivers the four core DBT skill modules — Mindfulness, Emotion Regulation, Interpersonal Effectiveness, and Distress Tolerance — through guided instruction, art-based activities, and reflective exercises. Each skill module is followed by a set of art activities that give you a hands-on way to practise and process what you are learning. You work through the material at your own pace and can return to any activity as many times as you need.

This resource is based on the work of Marsha Linehan (1988, 2014, 2015), Sheri Van Dijk (2019), Julie Brown (2016), Jean Eich (2015) and Susan Clark (2017). In this course we will cover:

• An Introduction to survival mode and behaviour
• Goal Setting
  • Goals Mind Map
• Mindfulness Skills
  • The Basics of Mindfulness
  • 4 steps to practice Mindfulness
  • WiseMind123
    • Clear Picture Skills
    • On-Track Thinking Skills
    • On-Track Action Plans
  • Balancing Life Visual Path
• 5 Mindfulness Art Activities
• Emotion Regulation Skills
  • The Basics of Emotion Regulation (ER)
  • Observe & Describe
  • How not to get sucked into Emotion Mind
  • Change unwanted emotions
  • Safety Planning
• 5 ER Art Activities
• Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills
  • The Basics of Interpersonal Effectiveness (IE)
  • Challenging Dialectics in IE
  • Boundaries
  • How-to Guide to Validation
  • Building Healthy Relationships (with Self and Others)
    • Finding Middle Ground
      • 4 Calm-Only Skills
    • Steps of Responsibility
• 6 IE Art Activities
• Distress Tolerance Skills
  • The Basics of Distress Tolerance (DT)
  • Crisis Survival Skills
  • Reality Acceptance Skills
  • Helpful HABITS
  • New-Me Activities
• 6 DT Art Activities
• Monitoring your Helpful HABITS
• and a DBT Reflection Questionnaire

Take It Further with a Membership

Your course is a great place to start. A membership adds even more to your practice:

• Monthly Online DBT Skills Practice Through Art Support Group
• Online gallery where you can (optionally) share your work with others in your cohort
• Exclusive members-only resources and updates
• Early access to new courses and programming
• Supplemental, time-limited video content (coming soon!) that pairs with our downloadable workbooks & online course

Individual membership: $5/month. Family, School, and Agency plans also available.

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