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This group shifts between psychoeducation, discussion, and more active, experiential activities to provide patients with an opportunity to generate topics of interest based upon their current treatment needs. Topics patients have chosen in the past include: forgiveness vs. acceptance, stigma of mental illness, managing relationships, feeling stuck, skill use when you don’t want to,  journaling as an adjunct with …

Using writing, time lines, memories and photographs, patients are encouraged to rediscover parts of themselves that may have been forgotten, misunderstood, or pushed aside. We examine how temperament, learning style, family, friends, community, culture and society impact the development of identity. Patients are often able to feel hope for the future as they expand their …

In this group, patients are encouraged to explore and understand themselves in relation to their family of origin. The structure of this group provides the opportunity to examine relationships with parents, siblings and significant family members through mindfulness activities, writing prompts, and art. We take a deep dive into family roles, spoken and unspoken rules, …

This group invites patients to dissect difficult, discreet moments from the previous week to begin to identify their patterns of coping and the difficulties they are having integrating skills into their lives. Patients identify a moment where they behaved in a way counter to their goals and then look at the interplay of their (1) …

Through the use of Dialectical Behavior Therapy-informed curricula, this group teaches patients how to recognize, understand, and regulate their emotions. Part of this patients are also invited to become more familiar with their emotions as a way of understanding how the expression of emotions (or lack thereof) communicates information to themselves and others which may or may …

Using the Distress Tolerance curricula from Dialectical Behavior Therapy and relapse prevention frameworks, this group helps patients design plans for coping both in the short and long terms. This group helps patients link emotional triggers with concrete strategies to both prevent and reduce emotional and behavioral difficulties. Additionally, this group introduces patients to mindfulness topics that can help …

This less-structured group, which meets twice weekly, provides patients with the opportunity to speak about their internal thoughts, feelings, and experiences with their peers in a way that they are not likely to do in their day-to-day life experiences. A core component of this group is to bring the treatment group to life as a …

This group teaches patients about the concept of mentalization and how to utilize a mentalizing stance to improve emotion regulation, self-understanding, and effectiveness in relationships. In particular, the group focuses on helping patients increase their awareness of their own thoughts and feelings, the thoughts and feelings of others, and how to use this heightened awareness …