This website would like to use cookies to collect information to improve your browsing experience. Please review our Privacy Statement for more information. Do you accept? Accept Deny. The program is designed to help resist societal pressures to look a certain way and feel more confident in your body through learning and reflection.
For more information and to apply, contact the AEDC or visit the website. Dialectical Behavior Therapy DBT treatment helps improve problematic patterns in emotion regulation, impulse control, interpersonal relationships and self-image. The groups focus on mindfulness, walking the middle path, emotion regulation, distress tolerance and interpersonal effectiveness.
The group is designed to help individuals address existing behavioral, emotional and interpersonal problems and begin living a life worth living. To join the waitlist or learn more, contact the clinic at If you would like to be contacted by a clinician, please complete the information survey. The Center for Autism Research, Treatment and Training CARTT Club is a social skills group for year-olds that utilizes applied behavior analysis treatment to help improve emotion regulation, impulse control, interpersonal relationships and communication.
CARTT Club offers skill development through skill modeling and practice and discussion and facilitated play, paired with expressive communication, development of an expanded leisure skill repertoire, distress tolerance and interpersonal effectiveness. These skills are aimed at helping group participants engage with their peers in social, academic and community settings. Groups are led by graduate and undergraduate clinicians in the Department of Psychological Sciences under the supervision of a board-certified behavior analyst and licensed independent clinical social worker.
Groups are conducted for 6β8-week sessions each fall and spring. The AUPSC is a training clinic that provides therapy and assessment services for children, adolescents, adults and families in east Alabama and surrounding areas.
