Dbt Next Steps Skills Handouts: Building a Life Worth Living (Hardcover)

Preface
I. DBT Next Steps Overview
- Skills-Training Syllabus
- DBT Next Steps Skills Group Participation Guidelines
- Practice Professional Behavior in DBT Next Steps
- DBT-ACES Requirements toward the Recovery Goals
- DBT Next Steps Check-In Long Form with Instructions
- DBT Next Steps Check-In Short Form
- Examples of Effective Behaviors and Ways to Prevent Avoidance
II. DBT Next Steps Skills-Training Handouts
Perfectionism versus Reinforcement
- Week 1: Perfectionism versus High Achievement
- Week 1 Assignment: Exploring High Achievement over Perfectionism
- Week 2: Another Middle Road Option: Being Average
- Week 2 Assignment: Practicing Alternatives to Being a Perfectionist
- Week 3: The Basics of Reinforcement
- Week 3 Assignment: Practicing Reinforcement
- Week 4: Untraining or Making It Stop!
- Week 4 Assignment: Untraining Behavior
Establishing and Re-Evaluating Relationships
- Week 1: Developing Accurate and Ideal Maps of My Community
- Week 1 Assignment: Complete Maps Now and Ideal
- Week 2: Diving Into New Relationships
- Week 2 Assignment: Do One Thing Every Day toward New Relationships
- Week 3: Re-Establishing Existing Relationships
- Week 3 Assignment: Accurate Assessment of Two Relationships
- Week 4: Variations on GIVE: Casual Conversation and Creating Distance
- Week 4 Assignment: Casual Conversation and Creating Distance
Time Management
- Week 1: Assessment of Time versus Values and Ambitions
- Week 1 Assignment Assessment of Time versus Values and Ambitions
- Week 2: Developing an Ideal Time Map
- Week 2 Assignment: Ideal Time Map
- Week 3: Moving from the Ideal Time Map to a Trial Time Map
- Week 3 Assignment: Trial Time Map
- Week 4: Moving from the Trial Time Map to Your Schedule
- Week 4 Assignment: Moving from the Trial Time Map to Your Schedule
Managing Emotions Effectively
- Week 1: Assessment of Reducing Vulnerability Skills
- Week 1 Assignment: Assessment of Reducing Vulnerability Skills
- Week 2: Regulating Yourself When You Need It
- Week 2 Assignment: Regulating Yourself When You Need It
- Week 3: Identifying and Managing Irritability
- Week 3 Assignment: Identifying and Managing Irritability
- Week 4: Managing Anxiety with the Body and the Mind
- Week 4 Assignment: Managing Anxiety with the Body and the Mind
Succeeding after DBT
- Week 1: Practice DBT 24/7
- Week 1 Assignment: Practice DBT 24/7
- Week 2: Therapy-Interfering Behaviors
- Week 2 Assignment: Therapy-Interfering Behaviors
- Week 3: Your Future and Therapy
- Week 3 Assignment: Your Future and Therapy
- Week 4: Practice Making Non-DBT Treatment Work
- Week 4 Assignment: Practice Making Non-DBT Treatment Work
Applications of Mindfulness
- Week 1: Daily Mindful Practice and Mindfulness to Control Attention
- Week 1 Assignment: Mindfulness to Control Attention
- Week 2: Opening and Refocusing the Mind
- Week 2 Assignment: Opening and Refocusing the Mind
- Week 3: Using the Mindfulness Skills for Anxiety
- Week 3 Assignment: Using the Mindfulness Skills for Anxiety
- Week 4: Mindfulness as a Doorway Opening to Skillful Behavior
- Week 4 Assignment: Mindfulness as a Doorway Opening to Skillful Behavior
Appendices
- Appendix 1. SDBT Diary Card
- Appendix 2. DBT Next Steps Diary Card
- Appendix 3. Overview of the Role of the Life Ambition in DBT Next Steps
- Appendix 4. Community Map Example
- Appendix 5. Ideal Time Map Example
References
Index