Welcome to the DBT Graduate Group!
If you found this page that means you have exclusively been invited Ebright's DBT Graduate Group. Welcome! This page was built to answer a few questions for you about this group and how it works. If ever you have a question, feel free to reach out. We hope you find this group helpful to building lives worth living and maintaining the skills!
What is a DBT Graduate Group |
Unlike a DBT Skills Group, this group is loosely modeled after a DBT Consultation Team for therapists. We begin with mindfulness, check-in with each other, set an agenda for the meeting that best supports your needs, and finish with committing to working on something before the next group. We also fully expect to support each other outside of group time.
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Our Goal |
I don't need to tell you how difficult life can be or how easy it is to find yourself drifting away from skills use. Life is really hard! And doing it without support is nearly impossible. The primary function of this support group is to:
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Getting Started |
If it's your first time in group, welcome! Before you begin, here are a few housekeeping tasks and things to do beforehand.
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Member Expectations |
A Graduate group is more process-oriented which means the group itself plays more of a role setting the agenda of what we will be doing in group. This is different than a DBT skills group which was goal-oriented and was more classroom style. It might take a couple sessions to get used to it but there's much to benefit from this style group.
To help with the transition, here are a few bullet points to keep in mind. These points were offered from Marsha herself to her new clinicians on a Consultation Team (which this is loosely built off of):
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Group Structure
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Member Roles |
To keep the group intact, we have found it helpful to carve out certain roles that we all participate in (usually we rotate every few sessions). It helps keep us actively involved and also provides a little more structure so we keep the group on track with the groups' goals. The roles currently are as follows:
Meeting leader
Observer - observes and rings the bell lightly when:
Note taker
Skills Refresher
Mindfulness
Team Leader (this role does not rotate)
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