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Introducing DBT Skills in Schools
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Expert in educational psychology James Mazza answers questions about teaching children to develop DBT skills in schools to help them cope with stress and look after their mental health.
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What led to your interest in adolescent mental health and DBT?
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What is DBT STEPS-A and how does it help young people?
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Is DBT STEPS-A incorporated into existing social emotional learning (SEL) curriculum or is the aim to replace the current SEL curriculum? How is DBT STEPS-A different or better than established SEL programs?
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Have you received pushback that mental health is not a core educational issue?
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Who delivers DBT STEPS-A? Is it teachers, school counsellors or external consultants?
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I am a school psychologist. How can I start to incorporate DBT skills into my school counselling work?
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I have explored DBT for adolescents and think it would fit well with SOME of our young people in a pediatric psychology setting. Most would benefit from some emotional regulation techniques. Are there any research papers that I can present to my manager (who believes DBT is only for self-harming young people) that show DBT skills can be helpful to adolescents in schools and elsewhere, not just those who self-harm?
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What do you make of some of the findings from the MYRIAD project suggesting that mindfulness universal prevention may be ineffective or harmful for adolescents identified as at-risk for depression?
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Does DBT STEPS-A offer a pathway for helping young people who are experiencing feelings of loneliness?
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How does your perspective on building adolescent resilience fit with the idea that young people are arriving to college from a childhood of less free play, overprotective parents and a culture of “safetyism” where they have been given less independence and exposure to risk?
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