DBT Skills Groups - Updates & Schedules

Adult DBT Skills Group

Adult DBT Skills Group. These groups are appropriate for adults ages 18 and older, men and women. The skills of Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Emotion Regulation and Interpersonal Effectiveness are taught in a weekly 90-minute session. These groups consist of teaching, experiential learning and discussion, with the goal of helping participants learn and incorporate the DBT skills into regular practice.

Tuesday - 6:00 pm

Adult DBT Skills Group (with Dayna and Julie)

9/26/23.

Group Content: DT P 350-352 Mindfulness of Current Thoughts.
Homework: Practice/Complete - DT Page 399 Mindfulness of Current Thoughts.

Wednesday - 5:30 pm

Adult DBT Skills Group (with Siobhan)

9/27/23.

Group Content: DBT HOW Skill
Breakout rooms to complete non judgemental exercise. Completed nonjudgemental- will start with One-Mindfully next group.
Homework: Practice/Complete - Practice being non judgemental with self. Bring in one example to share with the group next week.

Thursday - 6:30 pm

Adult DBT Skills Group (with Ratesha)

9/21/2023.

Group Content: DT HO10 - HO 12 Radical Acceptance and turning the mind pages 341-345.
Homework: Practice/Complete - DT WS 9 Page 394 Radical acceptance.

Adolescent - Teen DBT Skills Group

The Teen DBT Skills Group teaches the modules of DBT Skills for Adolescents including Mindfuless, Distress Tolerance, Emotion Regulation, Interpersonal Effectiveness, and Walking the Middle Path. These skills are designed to help participants learn to effectively regulate intense emotions and reduce self-defeating behaviors. This is primarily a psychoeducational group in which the focus is skill acquisition, development, and integration into everyday life.

Wednesday - 7:00 pm

Teen DBT Skills Group (with Chelsea and Ratesha)

9/27/2023.

Group Content: Introductions, Group Rules, Pros and Cons, pg. 328.
Homework: Practice/Complete - Pros and Cons of Acting on Crisis Urges, pg. 374 or pg. 375.

Wednesday - 1st Wednesday of each month - 7:00 pm - Next.... October 4th

Monthly Parent Meeting (with Ratesha)

9/6/2023

Monthly parent meetings provide parents with information about what teens are learning in DBT in order to help support skill development in relationships and the home environment. Parents have the opportunity to ask questions and obtain support. Parent meetings occur the 2nd Monday of each month from 7:00-8:00/30pm

Next Meeting October 4th

DBT Informed Support and Supplemental Group

This group is appropriate for anyone looking for peer support and skills strengthening to help them with regulating emotions effectively and managing the many challenges of our emotional lives. The group meets weekly and be offered virtually via TeleHealth on Mondays 11:00 am-12:15pm.

Monday - 11:00 am

DBT Informed Support and Supplemental Group (with Lona)

9/18/2023.

Group Content: Reinforcing Positive Affirmatians.
Homework: Practice/Complete - .

DBT Summer DBT Skills Group for College Students - 2023

This remote/TeleHealth group is intended to support & prepare new, returning & re-entering students into college life. The program uses DBT skills to help manage the intense emotions that often come with these transitions. Through discussion, creative activities, & experiential exercises, this group will teach the skills that are most relevant to the needs of college students. The group meets weekly for 90 minutes on Thursdays at 4:30pm. The ten week session begins June 8th and ends August 10th.

Thursday - 4:30 pm, through August 10th, 2023

Summer Program for New/Returning College Students (with Lona and Julie) - Remote via TeleHealth

8/10/2023

Group Content: HW review - Jeopardy Review; open discussion/ support; final group poll.
Homework: .

DBT Skills Groups and Schedules

DBT Group Skills Training at Princeton Center for DBT and Counseling

DBT Skills Groups are psychoeducational in which skills are taught in the areas of: Mindfulness; Emotion Regulation; Distress Tolerance; and Interpersonal Effectiveness. (see description of DBT for more details about the 4 Skills Modules). These groups follow a set agenda in which new information is taught weekly and homework and skills practice is assigned. The focus of this group is teaching effective skill use for regulating emotions, changing destructive patterns of thinking and behavior, improving relationship skills, and building the life you desire DBT Groups Schedule (Dialectical Behavior Therapy), listed below

Group Room at Princeton Center for DBT

Princeton Center for DBT and Counseling

Lona Stranieri, LCSW, Director, DBT-Linehan Board of Certification, Certified Clinician™

609-921-0020 or 609-468-1712

Email: Lona@PrincetonDBT.com

322 Commons Way, Princeton NJ 08540