DBT

[Peter Howie]

Hi Rebecca,

When you refer to training I imagine that you are referring to  
teaching others how to do DBT. So the action methods are required for  
the teaching more than the enactment. Is this correct?

If this is the case then I have a working principle that most training  
can be taught through action methods and it is the crafting of the  
warm up and actions that are congruent with that warm up that are most  
important. As for DBT the action methods could be applied both to  
teaching the practitioners and could be used by the practitioners in  
groups with kids/children/adolescents/young adults:) What practitioner  
could use would need to be regulated by you I think in order that they  
don't get grandiose. Anxiety seems to rule for people moving away from  
didactic methods to more active group processes and I think it is  
important to frame actions methods as safer than didactic methods.  
Action methods of course being a euphemism for psychodrama, sociodrama  
and sociometry techniques.

Have a ball in St Louis and develop a curricula for teaching DBT.

Peter

Peter Howie B.Sc, TEP
Managing Director
The Moreno Collegium for Human Centred Learning, Research and  
Development
0411 873 851
www.morenocollegium.com.au

On 26/02/2009, at 12:16 PM, HV Psychodrama wrote:

> Dear Grouptalkers,
>   First, thank you to all the folks who responded to me about DBT.  
> Here is the back story.  Four Winds Hopsital, has decided to use the  
> DBT model and they have asked me to develop action methods of  
> teaching the DBT skills. Which is a good thing, as the adolescents  
> with whom I work are totally bored by the didactic quality of the  
> other groups (how I feel about this shift is a whole other story!)   
> Problem is I have not been trained in DBT so I am winging it, trying  
> to take what I can get from the skills manual and figure out how to  
> put it into action with out "de regulating' the group members.
>   I would love to meet for lunch or dinner with folks at the St  
> Louis conference..perhaps we can brain storm ways psychodrama can be  
> useful for DBT skills training as more and more hospitals and  
> programs are using DBT. So let me know if you want to join me, and  
> we will find one another and choose a time.
>
>
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