This 4-week group is designed to introduce students to Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) principles and skills. Participants will learn mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness skills to manage emotions more effectively. We STRONGLY recommend that participants are in concurrent individual therapy for the duration of the group.
This group, based on Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), is designed to teach students skills to manage and regulate emotions more effectively. In a structured and supportive environment, participants will learn skills to modify behavioral, emotional, and thinking patterns associated with problems in living that cause misery and distress. Participants MUST be in concurrent weekly individual therapy to participate in this group. This group requires a brief pre-group meeting with the group facilitator(s) before joining.
The vision of the DBT-RU Youtube channel is to bring the skills used in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) to as many people as possible. Here, you can access important tools like mindfulness, emotion regulation, interpersonal effectiveness, and distress tolerance, directly from DBT experts.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy Clinic at Rutgers University (DBT-RU) is a research and training clinic. DBT-RU is directed by Shireen Rizvi, Ph.D, whose graduate school advisor was Dr. Marsha Linehan, the developer of DBT. For more resources, check out the links below.