CRAFTCONNECT
DBT Skills Training Program
5 week group training starts October 7, 6:00 to 7:00 pm (MT)
Try our new “Come, follow me” faith-based approach.
To reserve a spot please email us info@craftconnectfs.com.
How DBT Skills Help
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills can help you live a more fulfilling life by giving you greater control over your emotions, improving your relationships, and helping you respond to life’s challenges in healthier ways. These skills can be an important part of your journey toward personal growth and emotional strength. They are practical tools to get you through the hard times and build a life that feels meaningful and full of purpose, becoming more loving, patient, and aware of both yourself and others.
What is DBT?
Mindfulness skills helps you stay focused and centered. Paying attention to what's happening right now, both inside yourself and in the world around you.
Emotion Regulation skills help you manage intense feelings better and return to a calm and collected state, which is unique to each person.
Interpersonal Effectiveness skills are about keeping and improving relationships, whether it's with people you're close to or those you don't know well.
Distress Tolerance skills help you handle tough situations, often not of your own making, and get through them without making things worse.
Why learn DBT Skills
Dr. Marsha M. Linehan, the person who developed Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), says that the main goal of learning DBT skills is to help you create a life that is meaningful and enjoyable. According to her, the key to DBT is the determination to be effective in whatever you're doing, which is crucial for success in all areas of life.
DBT uses the Theory of Dialectics to deal with conflicting truths and experiences that naturally happen in life to find the ultimate truth. The basic idea is to balance Acceptance, where you learn to accept yourself and others as they are, along with the reality around you, and Change, which means being committed to finding new and better ways to live.
Scientific Evidence For DBT
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) combines proven research studies, the skill and ethics of experienced behavioral health professionals, and the needs and values of families. This Evidence-Based-Program is effective and also respectful of culture and personal preference. (See the U.S. federal government’s SAMHSA Evidence-Based Practices Resource Center: https://www.samhsa.gov/ebp-resource-center).
DBT has one of the strongest research records in the field of behavioral health. The very first major study, published in 1991 by Dr. Marsha Linehan and her team, showed that DBT made a real difference for women who struggled with chronic suicidal thoughts and self-harm. At the time, many professionals believed this group could not be helped, DBT proved otherwise
Since then, DBT has been tested in many different countries, treatment settings, and with people facing a wide range of mental health challenges. Again and again, results have shown that DBT skills work.
Growth of Research
The amount of DBT research has grown quickly over the years:
· From 1993 to 2000, about 8 studies per year were published.
· From 2001 to 2010, that number jumped to 41 studies per year.
· Since 2011, the pace has nearly doubled again, with about 78 studies every year.
This steady growth shows how much attention DBT has received worldwide and how consistently it has been confirmed as an effective treatment.
Staying Up to Date
Because so many studies are coming out, it can be hard to keep track of the latest findings. BehavioralTech.org regularly posts updated research summaries so that clients, families, and providers can see the most current evidence, DBT research updates
Research Summaries
Click below for archived, printable summaries of RCT and non-RCT studies.
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