DBT For Parents Program
The Be Center is a Place for Parents. Our DBT for Parents program goes beyond traditional support and skills groups, offering a powerful and meaningful path for parents to feel empowered and supported. This 12 month program guides parents through core components, we utilize evidence-based practices and DBT principles to help you navigate and address key areas impacting your family dynamics. Our goal is to reduce conflict, enhance coping skills, and strengthen family relationships. At The Be Center, our mission is to create a nurturing environment where your family can begin to heal. Your parent coach will support you throughout the program to help point you and your family towards wellness, stability and family balance.
The DBT for Parent program
Foundational: The foundational is the entry point for the program. We begin with parents attending a 4-hour training to help them learn the fundamentals of the treatment to prepare them for the program and group. The foundation is an introduction to treatment model.
Parent Wisemind: Throughout the program and group, we will introduce you to key skills guided by mindfulness and values. Building a parental wise mind takes time, and knowing how to parent from it when your child is struggling is especially difficult. We will revisit and strengthen your parental wise mind throughout the entire program.
Stabilizing the Environment: In the first part of the program called Calming the Storm, we work on reducing reactivity and invalidation in the home. We focus on fear-based parenting, trauma, and reducing accommodations to dysfunctional behaviors.
Transforming the Transaction: The second part of the program called Thrive, parents learn new ways to respond to ineffective behavior. Dysregulated behavior from your child is hard and creates tension and disconnection in the home. When we can increase emotion regulation as a parent, communicate and work on acceptance, increase validation, and change our responses, we can begin to change our interactions with our child.
Influencing Behavior and Rebuilding Relationships: Relationship activation and collaborative problem-solving are where you will begin to rebuild and improve your relationship with your child and develop communication skills to help you navigate conflict and disagreements.
Family Balance: Helping you bring it all together by attending to parents' sense of self and well-being while supporting independence in the home for all.
The structure of the program is grounded in building a Parent Wisemind and supported by DBT core principles of Acceptance and Change with the added need as a parent of having and practicing Curiosity and Limits.
These core components together will help you Be more mindful and effective as a parent.