DBT skills training for family members

Emotional deregulation frames are characterized by mood instability, difficulty in identifying and understanding emotional responses and difficulty knowing what to do to regulate them. It is a set of very reactive emotional responses added to inability to modulate the

intense emotions and associated behaviors and these answers. Leading to behavioral problems and interpersonal relationships and cognitive deregulation and identity. Some inconveniences have unregulation pictures, such as borderline personality disorder, bipolarity, chemical dependence, depression and eating disorders.

For family members who live with the deregulation of emotions is challenging. It is families who live intimately and need to react to the emotional instability of your family member. They are the ones who live day after day with the intensity of emotional responses and their consequences, most of the time not understanding what your family member is experiencing. Sometimes it becomes exhaustive to try to understand emotional answers and what to do before them. Thus the lack of understanding of the deregulation framework combined inability to deal with these answers can generate inappropriate behaviors that impair the treatment or development of your family member.

Families question themselves what to do in everyday situations and the great decisions related to finance, housing, health and life organizations. It is difficult to know what to do in times of intense emotions, such as anxiety and irritability crises. Many family members have doubts about how to place boundaries and place orders in the face of the emotional reactivity that presents itself or that can be triggered by their behavior. And especially, they want to know how they can help in the most assertive way, so that their family member can live well, with autonomy and psychic health.

To meet the needs of families, the Skill Training Group proposes the development of strategies to be used in everyday situations and in times of crisis. From the mindfulness modules, emotional regulation, tolerance to malaise and interpersonal effectiveness proposed by dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) it is possible to develop skills to deal with the various challenges that present themselves.

The group acts as a place so that family members can have support and feel safe to share their doubts and experiences with professionals and other family with challenges similar to their own. Throughout the meetings, specific skills are presented: theoretical understanding and exercises for learning skill. Everyday situations are discussed that can be

R Applied skills and how they can be generalized to different context situations.

With the practice of skills there is a decrease in stress and negative response cycles among family members. As well as increased assertive communication, with compassion and respect for your family member and yourself. Family relationships become healthier, increasing confidence and nourishing individual and family values.

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) is a treatment with scientific evidence and indicated for emotional deregulation. Change skills and acceptance skills go hand in hand for the development of individual health and relationships.