Building Regulations in Dual Generations at KIDTHINK

The BRIDGE Therapy Program is a novel manualized therapy that incorporates key parenting concepts and related Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) modules. The primary aim of the program is to improve parent well-being and promote supportive parenting practices. There are two components of the program: 1) the DBT section, which will follow the DBT Skills Training Manual 2nd Edition and target parental mental health symptomology, and 2) the parent skill training materials, which have been designed to correspond to the four core DBT modules (i.e., Mindfulness, Emotion Regulation, Distress Tolerance, and Interpersonal Effectiveness) and to promote self-regulatory skill development and a positive parent-child relationship.

The community services as usual clinical referral list provides information on accessing psychological and family support services in Winnipeg. This resource is used to locate: crisis, distress, and support phone lines, counselling and peer-support resources, and free apps relating to mindfulness and meditation.