DBT Crisis Survival Skills

This is a DBT Crisis Survival and Distress Tolerance flowchart. It uses the skills from Marsha Linehan's book.

I made it for my fridge, because when I'm in crisis, I can't really remember anything.

These skills are meant to be learned in a DBT skills class, or one-on-one with a therapist (DBT is an entire therapy modality); however, if you have access to neither, the materials are below to explain what each of the skills are.

The chart is meant to serve as a printable shorthand in-crisis reminder to use skills vs making the crisis worse.

DBT Crisis Survival - LucidChart

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Here is a version of the chart as a template (a lot of the above skills don't work for me).

Template - DBT Crisis Survival - LucidChart

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References

DBT Skills Training Handouts and Worksheets (Book)

DBT Skills Training Handouts and Worksheets (Crisis Survival PDFs)

redirect: sitwithariadne.com/dbt-crisis-survival-skills

v1.12 - Last edit 17-Apr-2022
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