Emotional regulation techniques and resilience-building strategies for navigating the stages of grief. Equips learners with practical tools for processing loss and supporting others through bereavement.
Behavioral strategies to enhance patient adherence to medical regimens and chronic illness management.
Exploring the bidirectional link between chronic pain and emotion regulation using a DBT lens.
Clinical approaches to treating sleep-related trauma and emotional avoidance through nightmare exposure and rescripting.
Integration of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I) protocols within a DBT framework to improve sleep efficiency.
Students master the tools for comprehensive sleep assessment and learn to differentiate between behavioral insomnia and medical sleep disorders.
The sequence concludes with students designing a 'Community Care Agreement' to establish norms for mutual support and collective rest in their own communities.
This lesson teaches specific bystander intervention strategies to bridge the gap between noticing distress and connecting a peer to resources.
Students learn to identify subtle behavioral and non-verbal signs of distress in their peers and practice gentle intervention strategies.
A workshop focusing on the listening skills required to support peers, emphasizing validation over immediate problem-solving.
Students define psychological safety and analyze its impact on team performance, using Google's 'Project Aristotle' as a primary case study.
Empowering students to identify and communicate their personal triggers using a 'remote control' metaphor.
Connecting the five senses to memories and emotional responses.
This sequence provides graduate-level training on integrating behavioral medicine and DBT to reduce emotional vulnerability. It covers advanced sleep assessment, CBT-I adaptation, nightmare protocols, chronic pain management, and medical adherence strategies.
This sequence explores the psychology of group dynamics and community care. Students learn to recognize burnout, offer effective support, and advocate for cultures where requesting breaks is normalized and valued.
A 5-lesson sequence for Pre-K students to help them understand triggers and distinguish past memories from present safety through play and sensory exploration.
This sequence prepares undergraduate students to facilitate peer-led mental health support groups. It covers ethical boundaries, group safety, advanced communication skills, crisis protocols, and concludes with a practical facilitation session.
A project-based unit for 4th graders focused on overcoming barriers to seeking mental health support, mastering assertive communication, and advocating for resources through a school-wide informational campaign.
An 11th-grade sequence exploring radical acceptance through cognitive reframing. Students learn to distinguish facts from judgments, dismantle 'should' statements, and apply resilience strategies to interpersonal relationships and future planning.
A counseling and life skills sequence for 12th-grade students focusing on applying Radical Acceptance to major life transitions, setbacks, and relationship changes as they prepare for life after graduation.
This 6th-grade sequence teaches students somatic and mindfulness-based techniques for Radical Acceptance. Students explore how body posture, breathing, and observation can help them stay calm and accept difficult realities rather than fighting them.
A comprehensive sequence for 6th-grade students on the A.C.T. (Acknowledge, Care, Tell) intervention model for suicide prevention. Students learn to identify warning signs, communicate empathy, and connect peers to trusted adults.
An inquiry-based sequence for 8th graders focusing on identifying situational triggers for mental health crises and building resilience through healthy coping strategies and protective factors.
This sequence explores how societal narratives shape personal identity. Students learn to deconstruct dominant cultural 'scripts', utilize Narrative Therapy frameworks like the Landscape of Action/Identity, and practice Outsider Witnessing to formalize new, preferred stories of agency and resilience.
This sequence introduces 12th-grade students to Narrative Therapy, focusing on externalization. Students learn to separate people from their problems through linguistic reframing, mapping problem influences, and identifying 'unique outcomes' to build agency and new life stories.
A comprehensive teacher's guide for leading the Lesson 5 workshop on medical adherence, behavioral shaping, and environmental modification.
A clinical worksheet for planning a behavioral shaping and environmental modification protocol for a client with medical non-adherence.
A professional slide deck for Lesson 5, covering behavioral strategies to enhance patient adherence to medical regimens and chronic illness management.
A discussion guide for teachers focusing on the clinical tensions of chronic pain management, opioid use, and radical acceptance.
A clinical worksheet for graduate students to analyze a client's chronic pain dynamics and apply DBT-informed interventions.
A professional slide deck for Lesson 4, covering pain science, the gate control theory, and behavioral pain management strategies within DBT.
A detailed teacher's guide for analyzing a trauma-based case study involving sleep avoidance and stimulant misuse.
A clinical rescripting worksheet for trauma survivors to practice nightmare exposure and mastery-based rescripting.
A professional slide deck for Lesson 3, covering nightmare rescripting protocols, the cycle of sleep avoidance, and trauma-informed sleep care.
A clinical worksheet for calculating sleep efficiency and designing a customized sleep window for clients.
A facilitation guide for teachers to lead the CBT-I integration workshop, including role-play scripts and clinical protocol details.
A specialized slide deck for Lesson 2, detailing the adaptation of CBT-I techniques (Stimulus Control and Sleep Restriction) for DBT clients.
