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DBT Interpersonal Effective Skills Objectiveness Effectiveness “DEAR MAN” Skills

• Describe

• Express

• Assert

• Reinforce

• Mindful

• Appear confident

• Negotiate

4 Essential DBT

Skills & Techniques

to Master

The essential Dialectical

Behavior Therapy skills are

categorized into the four skill

modules as outlined below.

These are the main skills and

techniques applied in DBT.

The interpersonal effectiveness

skills outlined below provide

useful tips for putting these

skills into practice.

The section on objective

effectiveness (DEAR MAN)

skills list the following tips:

Describe

• Use clear and concrete terms to describe

what you want;

• Don’t say: “Could you please clean?”;

• Do say: “Could you do the dishes before

going to bed?”

Express • Let others know how a situation makes you feel by clearly expressing your

feelings;

• Don’t expect others to read your mind;

• Try using this line: “I feel ___ because ___.”

Assert

• Don’t beat around the bush—say what you need to say;

• Don’t say: “Oh, well, I don’t know if I can cook tonight or not;”

• Do say: “I won’t be able to cook because I’m working

late.”

Reinforce

• Reward people who respond well, and reinforce why

your desired outcome is positive;

• This can be as simple as a smile and a “thank you.”

Mindful

• Don’t forget the objective of the interaction;

• It can be easy to get sidetracked into harmful

arguments and lose focus.

Appear

• Appear confident;

• Consider your posture, tone, eye contact, and body language.

Negotiate

• No one can have everything they want out of an interaction all the time;

• Be open to negotiation;

• Do say: “If you wash the dishes, I’ll put them away.”

Kronos training to begin soon! Scott Blake, with FSSA, will be

recording training sessions for the

Mobile and Desktop Overview

Session. That will allow staff to

watch whenever they like, and as

often as the like. The training will

be for all staff. Later, the Manager

Session will be live three times

including Saturday/Sunday.

Since it is a virtual class, we can

have as many employees as

needed. There will be separate sessions for Time-Keepers

and Schedulers.

Scott Blake will send a notice to all employees

regarding the training schedule that will begin in

August.

Two new policies have been added to

the State Personnel Department (SPD)

standardized polices for state employees.

Those can be viewed at this link:

https://www.in.gov/spd/

https://positivepsychology.com/dbt-dialectical-behavior-therapy/

Does Your Attitude Affect Your Health?

Last Thursday afternoon was BUNCO time!

Jon Vest, RTA, and Wilbert Lowe, RT, held a

Campus-Wide Bunco Event. 34 patients attended

with tandem units to roll away, and they ended up

with a three-way tie!

Players from Success Road, Wisdom Way and

Progress Road had a playoff match on Monday

to determine the Bunco Champion. Each partici-

pant had 2 wins and 1 Bunco. The result of the

playoff was Progress Road as the winner by 10

points over Success Road. Great job!

Rachel Rowlett, BHRA, and Kim Sexton, RT,

assisted with scoring. Thank you to everyone

who made this a success!

https://consumer.healthday.com/encyclopedia/holistic-medicine-25/holistic-medicine-news-383/does-your-attitude-affect-your-health-647819.html

When it comes to health, your opinion definitely matters. That's what Duke

University found when they asked almost 3,000 heart patients to classify

their health as poor, fair, good, or very good. As reported in the journal

Medical Care, those who chose "very good" were about 70% less likely to

die within 3 years than those who answered "good." And they had 3 times

the survival rate of those who claimed "poor" health.

At first, such results may not seem surprising. After all, people who chose

"poor" probably had good reason. But here's the astounding thing: In this

study and many others, researchers did their best to adjust for age, smoking,

activity levels, socioeconomic class, weight, blood pressure, cholesterol,

current diseases, and practically everything else that could affect a person's

survival.

Depression and anxiety can fuel many illnesses, including heart disease, hypertension, asthma, and

possibly even cancer and diabetes. A positive attitude about health can ward off mental distress and

may help provide important protection against these diseases.

Why is attitude so important? These studies seem to suggest that

attitude alone can tip the balance between life and death.