“You’re telling me that I’m going to watch a ball bounce back and forth on the screen while I think about some disturbing stuff and I’m going to magically feel better?” Yes. This is a regular conversation I have with friends, family members, and prospective...
We’ve made it! We are at our final post of the DBT skills series and it is my all-time *favorite* skill. It is time to learn about DEARMAN . DEARMAN is called the Objective Effectiveness skill, which refers to getting what you want out of...
We are working our way through the Interpersonal Effectiveness skills and are learning how to effectively interact with others. The second Interpersonal Effectiveness skill we will learn about is FAST . FAST is called the Self-Respect Effectiveness skill. While the GIVE skill can be used...
We have finally made it to the last category of DBT skills, Interpersonal Effectiveness. As a reminder from Series 1 , the goal of Interpersonal Effectiveness skills is “to learn how to be effective in interpersonal interactions, so that [the] interactions with others will have...