During moments of intense emotion, it’s imperative to have healthy, easily accessible, and effective coping mechanisms in your back pocket. With this thought in mind, I want to discuss TIP skills, a popular distress tolerance tool. During times of crisis, it’s...
At Columbus Park, we rely on Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) to teach our patients mindfulness skills, such as urge surfing, that help them better handle their challenging thoughts, emotions, and urges. Let’s take a closer look at urge surfing, a distress tolerance...
Distress Tolerance: Parental Superpowers Lucene Wisniewski, PhD, FAED and Laura Collins Lyster-Mensh, MS present on “Distress Tolerance: Parental Superpowers” at the FEAST of Knowledge 2020 virtual conference. Learn more about this event....
At Columbus Park, we use Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) to teach mindfulness skills that patients can use to better tolerate the thoughts, emotions, and urges they experience. One of those skills is urge surfing. What is urge surfing? Urge surfing is a mindfulness...