DBT

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I am organizing my thoughts around a training of some of Peter Levine's somatic re-experiencing techniques as they can support auxiliary roles, especially the double, and the co-consciousness necessary when doing trauma work.  I have had some wonderful success with a client of mine who suffers borderline symptomology and can now manage in session and often make meaning out of her narcissistic rage, and out side of session can more and more often self-soothe.

I hope to have something to bring to the Conference in 2010.  Patti   

   ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: HV Psychodrama<mailto:hvpi at hvc.rr.com> 
  To: Peter Howie<mailto:peterhowie at macquariehouse.com.au> ; Group talk Listserv<mailto:list at grouptalkweb.org> 
  Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 10:21 PM
  Subject: Re: DBT


  Actually I am talking about teaching the mindfulness and distress tolerance skills to the group members, not to the practitioners although I suspect that is the ultimate goal as the regular groups for these skills are bbbbbbooooorrrrrrring to the teens with whom we work. I have begun to develop some action approaches to teaching rational mind, emotional mind and wise mind, as well as some of the mindfulness techniques that include enacting distressful situations and using the skills within the enactment. But that is as far as I have gone.
  R
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Peter Howie<mailto:peterhowie at macquariehouse.com.au> 
    To: Group talk Listserv<mailto:list at grouptalkweb.org> 
    Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 7:54 PM
    Subject: Re: DBT


    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<http://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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