Counseling Groups
Learning to Manage: Understanding Our Minds
"Learning to Manage: Understanding Our Minds is a weekly Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills group; each week we will introduce and practice a new skill while reviewing the previously covered skills. One of the main goals of the group is to learn how to cope more effectively with intense emotions, relationship struggles, stress, and more. Learning to Manage is not individual therapy, instead it is a group to learn and experience new coping skills together."
Wednesdays from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM, February 23rd through May 4th.
Learning to Manage: Understanding Our Minds - Download PDF
For more information, call the UAF Community Mental Health Clinic at (907) 474-1999
Weekly Handouts
Week 1: October 10th
Orientation to Skills Training
Week 2: October 17th
Mindfulness “What” Skills: Observe
Mindfulness “What” Skills: Describe
Week 3: October 24th
Distracting with Wise Mind Accepts
Week 4: October 31st
Radical Acceptance/Practicing Radical Acceptance
Week 5: November 7th
Allowing the Mind: Mindfulness of Current Thoughts
Week 6: November 14th
Week 7: November 21st
Accumulating Positive Emotions: Long Term (handout #1 and handout #2)
Build Mastery and Cope Ahead Skills for Emotional Situations
Mindfulness of Current Emotions
Week 8: November 28th
A Model of Emotions (handout #1 and handout #2)
Week 9: December 5th
Factors Reducing Interpersonal Effectiveness (handout #1 and handout #2)