Tips and tricks for helping improve your mental health and well-being - aimed at children, young people and their parents and carers. Developed by the team at mymind.org.uk, a NHS website, run by CWP CAMHS.
Why not listen to our new podcast which is part of our team of life resource Our zone-in podcast is a mindfulness podcast, which encourages you to pay attention to what you are actually experiencing, zoning-in and letting your thoughts …
This page tells you more about the DBT skills for ‘self-respect effectiveness’. These are the skills you would use when keeping your self-respect is your highest priority in the situation (over achieving your objective or keeping the relationship). Self-respect means …
There are 6 specific mindfulness skills used in DBT and these are broken down into: On this page we will be focusing on mindfulness ‘How’ skills; you can find out more about mindfulness ‘What’ skills here. So, what are the …
A FAST way to maintain self respect Part of the 4D DBT Toolkit, this podcast provides a practical introduction to how the FAST acronym can help you ‘stand FAST’ and maintain your self respect during relationship issues. For more information …
There are 6 specific mindfulness skills used in DBT and these are broken down into: On this page we will be focusing on mindfulness ‘What’ skills; you can find out more about mindfulness ‘How’ skills here. So, what are …
Choose to Re-Act differently Part of the 4D DBT Toolkit, this podcast helps explain how important it can be not to give in to negative emotions. Choosing to do the complete opposite, both physically and mentally can bring about very …
A tale of radical acceptance with a tail Part of the 4D DBT Toolkit, this podcast tells the tale of a down in the dumps donkey that finds happiness in accepting the things that cannot change. For more information about …
Half smile and let the tension fade away Part of the 4D DBT Toolkit, this podcast provides a practical introduction to the power of half smiling and how to do it. For more information about ‘DBT’ skills check out the …
This page talks about the DBT ‘decreasing emotional suffering’ skills for ‘emotion regulation’. These skills are really important in helping you to take control of your emotions, to prevent painful feelings from causing you suffering. They do this by helping …
This page tells you more about the DBT ‘acceptance’ skills Acceptance skills help you to let go of the need to fight reality when you have no control over the situation. Accepting reality is about acknowledging ‘it is what it …