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r Patterns: Balanced Lifestyle Walking the middle path through the following areas Skill enhancement VS Selfacceptance Problem solving VS Problem acceptance Affect regulation VS Affect tolerance Selfefficacy VS Help seeking Independence VS Dependence Transparency VS Privacy 5. Add Mindfulness General Goal of Skills Training To learn and refine skills in changing behavioural, emotional and thinking patterns associated with problems in living, that is, those causing misery and distress. General Points ? Shot gun approach – some of the skills will work for some of the people some of the time ? The parts of the skills are rarely new, but the bination often is ? Clients need to be convinced that what they?re learning is going to be useful, relevant to them (?marketing? the skills) ? Clients will often have attended other groups, need to discuss how this might be different (. not process oriented) ? Emphasize goal of longterm relief vs. immediate relief ? Emphasize need for practice, practice, practice The Skills ? Core mindfulness ? Interpersonal effectiveness ? Emotion regulation ? Distress tolerance Mindfulness “bringing an unshakeable friendliness and deep degree of curiosity and interest to what is happening in and around you… and doing this again and again and acclimatising to this way of being” Tarchin Hearn “Mindfulness in totality has to do with the quality of awareness that a person brings to activities” Marsha Linehan Interpersonal Effectiveness Asking amp。 Therapists 1. The most caring thing a therapist can do is he