Vividbound: Empowering Communities

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We are excited to announce, Vividbound attended dialectal behavioral therapy (DBT) in School Skills Training for Emotional Problem Solving for Adolescents (STEPS-A) Train-the Trainer Program presented by Melanie McCabe, PhD, LP, HSP.  This was a wonderful well thought program and is highly recommended by us. 

                                 ***What DBT Skill Services Entail***

Most importantly, Vividbound has successfully completed the training and received the certificate to start the process of hosting training sessions to counsel parents, teachers, child care providers, adolescent sport coaches, youth leaders, guardians, caregivers, community leaders, etc. on topics that entail:

- a variety of skills that can help children understand and manage their emotions using basic principles,

-helping children ask for what they want,

-saying no, 

-naming their emotions,

-mindfulness, 

-distress tolerance,

-interpersonal effectiveness, and

-emotional regulation.

Many of Vividbound clients have children. Unfortunately, when our team was assisting with the clients direct needs that involve a crisis related to safety, the safety needs remained on the forefront while helping the adult client/parent transition from their crisis situation. Sadly, this left many children without the emotional support that they need. Many children and teens are having a tough time managing their emotions and the resources to help them are limited. Vividbound vowed to make a difference by finding different ways to help children who have experienced trauma have a safe space to learn new skills with managing their emotions. 

                                                   **Did You Know**

Did you know that the recommended ratio of school psychologists to students is 1:500 and North Carolina has a ratio of 1:1,979. Also, since 2020 there has been an increase of 46% more patients seeking psychology care and 60% of psychologists are not accepting new clients. Moreover, many of the children and/or teens who are in need of mental health services have witnessed domestic violence. 8.8 million children in the United States witness domestic violence in the home each year.  Additionally, slightly more than half of female victims/survivors of intimate violence live in households with children under the age of 12. Children are often physically injured as a direct result of domestic violence. It estimated that 50% of men who frequently abused their wives also abused their children. To continue, children who witnessed domestic violence are at increased risk of psychological and emotional problems, cognitive functioning problems, and long-term development problems. For all the above reasons, Vividbound had to move into action and attend DBT Skills Training for Emotional Problem Solving for Adolescents (DBT STEPS-A).

                            **Vividbound's DBT Skills Training Services**

Vividbound's DBT  services is a program that is composed of group sessions, phone coaching, skill training, and/or a consultation team of counselors along with therapists. DBT is known to help one develop concrete skills that one can use to cope when life feels overwhelming.  The word dialectical in DBT comes from the term dialectics. This means that everything is composed of opposites, and those opposites can co-exist.  Additionally, DBT approach is based on the belief that change and relief come from accepting opposing emotions, thoughts, and behaviors. Vividbound's DBT counseling program also includes demonstrations on rather than advising the child or teen about the area that was handled inappropriately, providing a variety of ways to demonstrate how the child or teen can approach the situation more appropriately which leads to positive outcomes.

Our goal is to help children/teens have the tools that can develop to better cope with all types of challenges. The counseling sessions objectives are to help children/teens learn to replace ineffective behaviors and thoughts with more effective ones so that they can manage life's stressors and difficult emotions. Vividbound's training sessions are being offered for free to our clients that have children and the community which is geared specifically towards teens/adolescents, parents, guardians, teachers, child care providers, adolescent sport coaches, youth leaders, caregivers, community leaders, etc.

We will be starting DBT skills training support group sessions soon, to find out more contact us by clicking on the referral form button below!

If interested in receiving one on one  DBT training services, please feel to contact us by clicking on the referral form button below!

 (All statistics above with regards to domestic violences were cited from the U.S. Department of Justice, Violence by Inmates; The Prevalence and Consequences of Child Victimization; Physical Violence in American Families; and Problems Associated with Children's Witnessing of Domestic Violence)