Finding the Middle Path (Be Drama Free Through DBT!)
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Episode 10A: Turning the Mind and Willingness over Willfulness (with background music)
17 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we continue our journey in acceptance skills with Turning the Mind and Willingness over Willfulness. We also discuss how to incorpora...
Episode 10B: Turning the Mind and Willingness over Willfulness (no background music)
17 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we continue our journey in acceptance with Turning the Mind and Willingness over Willfulness. We also explore how to incorporate thes...
Episode 9b: Radical Acceptance (no background music)
19 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we learn about the optional responses to a serious problem coming into your life, which leads us to the skill for the episode: Radica...
Episode 9: Radical Acceptance
19 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk about the 5 optional responses when a serious problem comes into your life, which leads us to the skill for the episode: radi...
Episode 8: IMPROVE and Self-Soothe
28 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We continue our journey through distress tolerance skills with IMPROVE and Self-soothe. IMPROVE is used to make each moment better and can be used whe...
Episode 7: ACCEPTS and TIPP
06 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we start learning skills from the distress tolerance module. This module is made up of two types of skills: crisis survival and distr...
Episode 6: Opposite Action
16 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we learn how to change the behavioral component of an emotion by taking opposite action. We'll talk about emotions and urges, the opp...
Episode 5: ABC PLEASE and HALT skills
28 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We continue our journey in emotion regulation with ABC PLEASE, to reduce vulnerability to emotional mind, and a skill taken from Alcoholics Anonymous,...
Episode 4: Urge Surfing
11 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Learn how to use mindfulness to surf your emotions and urges, how to surf at work, and tips for helping teenagers learn how to surf.
Episode 3: Introduction to Emotion Regulation and Emotion Identification and Description
25 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Learn the benefits of emotion regulation, the DBT model of emotions, and how the model of emotions relates to you and the teens you work with.
Episode 2: What and How skills
16 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Learn how to access your Wise Mind using the What and How skills and discover the difficulties a teenager might face while trying to learn and practic...
BONUS: Coping with Grief using DBT
12 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Over the summer, I did a virtual presentation for the Yurok Tribe about using DBT to deal with grief. It was tailored for native youth but the informa...
Episode 1: What is DBT and Intro to Mindfulness
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Learn a little about dialectical behavior therapy, mindfulness, and using it all when working with teens. *This is my first try and it is quite obvio...