Let's go with schedule 1 🙂 Everything in schedule 5 is covered in 1, but 1 has more interpersonal effectiveness stuff which sounds good. The difference in weeks seems to be made up with the review of mindfulness and the extra IE weeks (I like the sound of your proposed approach to the review bits also). It also makes sense that we follow a "standard" schedule. I also really like the idea of the "steps" vs "weeks" thing. We can take small or big steps or long or short ones, much easier than we can change the size of a week. Now we can also check off the plan to have a plan by today. 

 

Tangent ahead, but I thought it was interesting. I spent the early hours of the morning wandering around Google trying to work out where some of these schedules were developed and why. I came across a journal article by the clinical psychologist who designed schedule 5 (which it is named after). It was developed and then tested using RCT as a transdiagnostic treatment with "promising" results. I thought it was really cool to see how and why DBT skills can be effective for a number of different disorders/mh issues. 

 

 

 

Tiny hiccups, huge hiccups, sunshine, breezy weather or mega storms - I really think we can all muddle our way through this together but not.