Whether you're looking to turn over a new leaf and make a dramatic change or just tweak a few things, this course could be your ticket to a fuller, happier life! Written by an experienced, successful instructor, the online material aims to guide you through a series of modules, each of which is designed to help you make the changes you need for a whole new you. Learn key skills behind DBT and compassion focused therapy so that you can help others achieve their goals along with yourself!

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Modules:

Validation Definition of validation, and why it is important Validation and its dialectical balance with problem solving and change strategies Linehan’s Biopsychosocial model of Borderline Personality Disorder The implication of invalidating environments for a child, and for the adult Exercises on creating validating responses to specific statements Different ways of validating Using validation in your own situation

Metaphors How metaphors work and why we should use them Six examples of metaphors Four metaphors you can use repeatedly, for common problem situations General principles of metaphors, including visual metaphors

Relentless problem solving The five stage problem solving strategy Forms for clients (and you) to use with problem solving Contingency management The nature of contingency management Behavioural analysis Chain analysis and solution analysis

Mindfulness A definition and description of mindfulness and its purposes Kabat-Zinn’s descriptions of mindfulness Mindfulness and its role in balancing ‘the emotional mind’ with ‘the reasonable mind’ to achieve ‘the wise mind’ The three ‘What’ skills of mindfulness The three ‘How’ skills of mindfulness Mental Health problems to which mindfulness can be applied

Distress tolerance ‘Distraction behaviours’ that may be used to contradict and neutralise distress ‘Radical’ distress tolerance: doing nothing How to do nothing How to order competing prioritie Life-threatening behaviours, therapy-threatening behaviours, and behaviours that interfere with the quality of life The patient-therapist agreement – our role in it Assumptions we can make about the patient – and those we can’t