Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION7
DBT SKILLS SUMMARY9
MUSIC THERAPY13
PART 1 GROUP ACTIVITIES FOR CLINICIANS TO FACILITATE
LISTENING TO MUSIC15
Choose a Song that Describes You16
Thoughts and Feelings19
Lyric Analysis21
Name That Tune/ Sing the Next Line23
Bingo25
SONG WRITING27
Positive Affirmations28
Metaphors31
Group Song Writing33
Self-Expression36
MOVEMENT39
Pass the Move
Mirroring
MAKING MUSIC41
Activities for Melodic Instruments42
Activities for Drums and Rhythm Instruments45
Rhythm Activity-No Instruments48
Singing Karaoke50
GUIDED IMAGERY51
Relaxation & Stress Relief54
Wise One56
Success59
SONGS63
The Roller Coaster Ride65
The Message69
The System73
I'm Gonna Make It76
Pros & Cons80
PART 2- WORKBOOK
HOW TO USE THIS SECTION OF THE BOOK
MINDFULNESS
Mindfulness: Being Mindful
Mindfulness: 3 States of Mind
Mindfulness: What Skills
Mindfulness: How Skills
DISTRESS TOLERANCE
Crisis Survival Skill: Distraction with ACCEPTS
Crisis Survival Skills: IMPROVE the moment
Crisis Survival Skill: Self-Soothing
Crisis Survival Skill: Pros & Cons
Acceptance Skills: Radical Acceptance
Acceptance Skills: Willingness vs Willfulness
EMOTION REGULATION
Observing and Describing Emotions
Decrease the Amount of Time in Unwanted Emotions: Check the facts
Changing Unwanted Emotions: Opposite Action
Reducing Vulnerability to Emotion Mind: Accumulating Positives
Reducing Vulnerability to Emotion Mind: Building Mastery
Reducing Vulnerability to Emotion Mind: (Coping Ahead)
Reducing Vulnerability to Emotion Mind: PLEASE
INTERPERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS
Asking for what you want (DEAR MAN)
Keeping the relationship(GIVE)
Keeping self-respect (FAST)
WALKING THE MIDDLE PATH
Dialectics
Validation
Increase Behaviors and Decrease Behaviors
FURTHER RESOURCES
REFERENCES83

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A collection of therapeutic music activities to teach, strengthen, and anchor DBT Skills (and other positive life skills)

About the Author

Deborah Spiegel MT-BC is a Board- Certified Music Therapist who has been in the field since 1976, providing music therapy for people of all ages. She served as Music Therapist and DBT skills group leader on a DBT Team starting in 2001, and now runs and offers a variety of DBT related classes and supports through the Spiegel Academy.

Suzanne Makary, MT-BC is a Board- Certified Music Therapist who has spent her career serving adults with mental health challenges. As a DBT-Informed music therapist, Suzanne has created a curriculum for the Innovations Partial Hospital Program at St. Luke's University Health Network focused on teaching DBT skills daily.

Lauren Bonavitacola PsyD, is a psychologist and board certified music therapist working for Cognitive & Behavioral Consultants of Westchester and Manhattan, an outpatient CBT- and DBT-based treatment, training, and consultation center.

Reviews

As a psychologist and life-long musician I've always wanted to better synthesize these two passions to help my patients. Spiegel, Makary, and Bonavitacola, show me (and now you) many effective and practical ways to creatively weave music into DBT! You do not need to be a musician or a psychologist to find these therapeutic activities immediately applicable to your patients, students, and colleagues who are practicing DBT.
*Alec L. Miller, PsyD, Co-Founder and Clinical Director, CBC , White Plains, NY and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Albert Einstein College of Medicine*

A refreshing and stimulating read, providing need-to-know information and unique insight when utilizing music and art-focused DBT techniques. As an experienced music therapist and educator, Deborah Spiegel has opened a "DBT door" to readers and laid a foundation ensuring informed and individualized treatment in the therapy field and beyond.
*Katherine E. Borst, MT-BC, Board Certified Music Therapist*

Spiegel, Makary and Bonavitacola have compiled an impressive collection of music related activities designed to "teach, strengthen and anchor" DBT and other life skills. The book shows how to use music and music appreciation in the DBT skills curriculum. The authors provide creativity and inspiration from the field of music therapy. Well done!
*Cedar Koons, DBT consultant, researcher, DBT-LBC certified therapist and author of 'The Mindfulness Solution to Extreme Emotions: Take Control of BPD with DBT'*

In my work with adolescents, music really engages them, and when kids are engaged, that's half the battle for teaching them skills. Especially at a program like mine where group participation is expected as part of treatment.
*Libby Arsenault, Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Group Leader, Mental Health Counselor at an inpatient DBT program, and non-musician*