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 - 12:00 pm

Adult DBT Skills Group (with Jen & Lona)

3/7/23

Group Content: Willingness.
Homework: Practice/Complete - Practice Page 391.

Tuesday - 6:00 pm

Adult DBT Skills Group (with Dayna)

314/28/23.

Group Content: General Mindfulness overview.
Homework: Practice/Complete - Pick ONE: MF WS 8 Mindfulness of Pleasant Events Calendar P101-102 OR MF WS9 Mindfulness of Unpleasant Events Calendar P 103-104.

Wednesday - 5:30 pm

Adult DBT Skills Group (with Siobhan)

3/15/23.

Group Content: Completed Opposite Action and Problem Solving. Started Accumulating Positive Thoughts- Short Term (page 248).
Homework: Practice/Complete - Complete page 288: Opposite Action to Change Emotions Review Pleasant Events List and complete two items on list throughout the week.

Thursday - 6:30 pm

Adult DBT Skills Group (with Ratesha and Lona)

3/9/2023.

Group Content: Wise Mind: State of Mind, pg. 50.
Homework: Practice/Complete - Ideas for Practicing Wise Mind, pg. 51-52 (practice 2 exercises and share 2 examples of using wise mind).

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)

3/15/2023.

Group Content: Strategies for Decreasing or Stopping Unwanted Behaviors, pg. 162.
Homework: Practice/Complete - Changing Behavior by Extinguishing or Punishing It, pg. 195.

Wednesday - 1st Wednesday of each month - 7:00 pm - Next.... April 5th

Monthly Parent Meeting (with Ratesha)

3/1/2023

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 April 5th

Graduate Adult DBT Skills Support Group

This group is intended to support the DBT graduate with continuing the practice of skills once they have completed the comprehensive skills training. A monthly 90-minute session offers the opportunity to practice and discuss what’s working and what is challenging participants in their regular application of the skills.

Thursday - 4:00 pm

Graduate Adult DBT Skills Support Group (with Lona)

April 14th, 2022.

Group Content: Standard Grad Group Agenda, with Practice Skills as Needed.
Reminder: Next Group May 12th - 2022 (4:00 pm).

DBT Summer Program for College Students

This group is intended to support and prepare new, returning and 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, and 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 Mondays at 4:30pm. The ten week session begins June 3rd and ends August 5th, 2019.

Monday - 4:30 pm, June 3rd - August 5th, 2019

Summer Program for New/Returning College Students (with Lona , Jen and Siobhan)

8/5/19

Group Content: Putting It All Together.
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

Lona Stranieri, LCSW

Lona is a DBT-Linehan Board of Certification, Certified Clinician™

609-921-0020 or 609-468-1712

Email: Lona@PrincetonDBT.com

322 Commons Way, Princeton NJ 08540

Princeton Center for DBT and Counseling