The development of an 8 Week Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) Informed Skills Training Program including Creativity/art making exercises for the treatment of people who have difficulty managing their emotions.

Megan Shiell0 个研究点目标入组 128 人开始时间: 2015年11月13日最近更新: 2020年2月17日

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•Participants referred to attend both 8 week programs will have a history of mental health issues specifically related to difficulty in managing or regulating emotions. They will be referred from a variety of mental health sources. They will have presented to General Practitioners, Psychiatrists or Psychologists or other mental health providers with a history of emotional dysregulation. Facilitators will be asked to complete a 'DERS' Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale, Gratz,K.L. & Roemer, L. (2004) with potential participants.

•The exclusion criteria for the study would be any participants exhibiting the following:
•1.Marked degree of cognitive deficit which would prevent participation in essential treatment components (e.g. diary card. Specific behavioural deficits = unable to read, focus, recall, verbally communicate)
•2.Actively psychotic – i.e. thought-disordered; responding to auditory hallucinations, delusional beliefs.
•3.Specific behaviours: to an extent that they:
•(a) Interfere with setting, being able to assess or provide treatment, or
•(b) Make the individual unable to behaviourally attend/participate in assessment/treatment.
•4.Using substances/alcohol – at diagnostic level of severity (such that it largely obstructs therapy)
•5.Bingeing/disordered eating to point of
•(a) Behaviour requiring current inpatient care and/or
•(b) Inability to cope with therapy tasks

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Megan Shiell