This is an introduction to Dialectical Behavior Therapy and how the Skills can be used to enhance the Social Emotional Learning curriculum for a school system.
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Thanks for joining me today,
we're gonna be talking about dialectical behavior therapy
and what it is
and why it might be a good fit for your school system
first, let's cover what are DBT skills.
Well, dialectical behavior therapy was designed
to give you skills that help with living your best life.
It was created by dr Marshall Lenihan
and was Jerusalem for
borderline personality disorder.
However, throughout the course of time
they've discovered with research
that it's effective for both adults
and for kids
and
you don't have to have a diagnosable issue
to find value in these skills.
You can learn to deal with strong emotions,
learn great ways to focus and concentrate,
learn new ways to handle frustration and learn how to get what you want,
but still keep good relationships with others.
Now this leads us to the second part of our presentation
which is why I use DBT skills in school settings.
As you know,
young adults often have difficulty with
having healthy relationships,
dealing with strong emotions,
managing
life crisis
and having a distracted mind,
especially
in the classrooms.
Mindfulness skills come in very handy.
They reduce distractions in your head,
reduce confusion of your thoughts,
increase your focus and also increase your clarity and concentration.
Keep calm and carry on
mindfulness skills help us every day
Now emotion regulation skills helped to reduce vulnerability to strong emotions
well, better able to handle those strong emotions when they happen.
It increases your feelings of self control
because you're no longer being controlled by those strong emotions.
It also helps you improve your ability to manage
those strong emotions.
Now, if you're having a crisis within your life,
it's very important to have distress tolerance skills
so you can show resilience during moments of crisis,
also increase your confidence
and improve your coping skills,
but also learning to be mentally prepared for whatever may come.
Lastly,
the skills can help with healthy relationships.
Interpersonal effectiveness skills are very important
when we want to maintain our relationships with others,
pardon my sneeze,
we need to strengthen our relationships whether
it's with parents or teachers or peers.
We can ask for our needs and also keep our dignity and self respect.
We can improve our friendships
and increase our teamwork
with the interpersonal effectiveness skills.
All of these combined together to be a curriculum for social emotional learning,
which as we all know, is a very important component
of the modern classroom and educational services that we have in our schools.
Thank you for listening to this introduction of dialectical behavior therapy.
I look forward to talking to you in our next session.