Creative DBT Activities Using Music: Interventions for Enhancing Engagement and Effectiveness in Therapy

Contents

• INTRODUCTION7
• DBT SKILLS SUMMARY9
• MUSIC THERAPY13
• PART 1 GROUP ACTIVITIES FOR CLINICIANS TO FACILITATE
• LISTENING TO MUSIC15
• Choose a Song that Describes You16
• Thoughts and Feelings19
• Lyric Analysis21
• Name That Tune/ Sing the Next Line23
• Bingo25
• SONG WRITING27
• Positive Affirmations28
• Metaphors31
• Group Song Writing33
• Self-Expression36
• MOVEMENT39
• Pass the Move
• Mirroring
• MAKING MUSIC41
• Activities for Melodic Instruments42
• Activities for Drums and Rhythm Instruments45
• Rhythm Activity-No Instruments48
• Singing Karaoke50
• GUIDED IMAGERY51
• Relaxation & Stress Relief54
• Wise One56
• Success59
• SONGS63
• The Roller Coaster Ride65
• The Message69
• The System73
• I'm Gonna Make It76
• Pros & Cons80
• PART 2- WORKBOOK
• HOW TO USE THIS SECTION OF THE BOOK
• MINDFULNESS
• Mindfulness: Being Mindful
• Mindfulness: 3 States of Mind
• Mindfulness: What Skills
• Mindfulness: How Skills
• DISTRESS TOLERANCE
• Crisis Survival Skill: Distraction with ACCEPTS
• Crisis Survival Skills: IMPROVE the moment
• Crisis Survival Skill: Self-Soothing
• Crisis Survival Skill: Pros & Cons
• Acceptance Skills: Radical Acceptance
• Acceptance Skills: Willingness vs Willfulness
• EMOTION REGULATION
• Observing and Describing Emotions
• Decrease the Amount of Time in Unwanted Emotions: Check the facts
• Changing Unwanted Emotions: Opposite Action
• Reducing Vulnerability to Emotion Mind: Accumulating Positives
• Reducing Vulnerability to Emotion Mind: Building Mastery
• Reducing Vulnerability to Emotion Mind: (Coping Ahead)
• Reducing Vulnerability to Emotion Mind: PLEASE
• INTERPERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS
• Asking for what you want (DEAR MAN)
• Keeping the relationship(GIVE)
• Keeping self-respect (FAST)
• WALKING THE MIDDLE PATH
• Dialectics
• Validation
• Increase Behaviors and Decrease Behaviors
• FURTHER RESOURCES
• REFERENCES83