Radically Open (RO) DBT Skills

Radically Open DBT is a treatment designed for people who tend to be more “closed” and can benefit from being more “open.” Here, closed can mean things including emotionally overcontrolled, obsessive-compulsive, affectively constricted, cognitively rigid, defensive, detail-oriented, perfectionistic, isolated, lonely, socially anxious, arrogant, paranoid, anorexic, or depressed. Skills cover a wide range of useful topics including mindfulness, emotional education and expression, social signaling, social safety, social connectedness, communication, flexibility, and self-enquiry among LOTS of other things. All RO DBT skills from The Skills Training Manual for Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy by Thomas Lynch are covered in this series.

(There is no video for Lesson 30, because it is an “integration week” where the skills class participates in activities related to past lessons, but no new material is taught.)